Did President Trump and his attorneys 'coach' Michael Cohen's false testimony to Congress? by hunterw
WASHINGTON — One of the major lines of questioning during Michael Cohen’s six hours of testimony Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee focused on his assertion that President Trump’s “personal lawyers reviewed and edited” a false statement he gave to Congress in 2017. Jay Sekulow, who serves as counsel to the president, responded to the testimony with a statement saying Cohen’s claim was not true.
According to Cohen, Trump “did not directly” tell him to lie to Congress. Rather, Cohen said he knew Trump wanted him to downplay the deal because of the president’s repeated false statements in private meetings and on the campaign trail throughout the first half of 2016, when Trump claimed that he did not have business interests in Russia. Cohen also said Trump’s lawyers signed off on the false statement that the Moscow skyscraper project ended in January 2016, which sent a clear signal.
“POTUS … requested a meeting on Thursday with Michael Cohen and Jay Sekulow any idea what this might be about?” the special assistant asked in the message. Connolly asked Cohen if Trump attempted to “coach” his congressional testimony during the meeting. While Cohen stressed that Trump doesn’t generally explicitly “tell you what he wants,” he said the president made it abundantly clear he wanted Cohen to downplay the Moscow skyscraper project by making comments like “there’s no Russia, there’s no collusion, there’s no involvement.”
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