Cohen reveals Whitehouse & Trump told him to lie to Congress about Moscow project

[Bladewire]

Obstruction of justice is a crime

"Cohen also maintains that he got guidance from Trump’s lawyers and his White House staff in 2017 while he drafted his false statement to Congress seeking to cover up the truth about the Moscow project and the fact that Donald Trump was heavily involved in the project."

New Cohen Bombshells Might End the Trump Presidency

Michael Cohen tossed another bomb at Donald Trump late Friday night by publicly disclosing that he told his former boss, who was then a presidential candidate, about a phone call he made to Moscow in 2016. Cohen said he called the Kremlin to request help from the Russian government in building a Trump Tower in Russia’s capital city.

Not only that, but Cohen also maintains that he got guidance from Trump’s lawyers and his White House staff in 2017 while he drafted his false statement to Congress seeking to cover up the truth about the Moscow project and the fact that Donald Trump was heavily involved in the project.

Both of these new, explosive accusations were made by Cohen’s attorneys late Friday night as part of the case being prosecuted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. They were part of a “sentencing memo” in which Cohen asked for a no-jail sentence in exchange for his cooperation with Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Cohen’s new filings with the court completely contradict the statements of President Trump who said he had little knowledge and no involvement in the Moscow project.

Last year Cohen told both the House and Senate intelligence committees that he briefed Donald Trump just three times about the plan to build a 100-story skyscraper in Russia’s capital. He also said told the committees that his requests to the Kremlin went unanswered.

But the Special Counsel’s office has asserted that Cohen briefed Trump many times about the huge Moscow real estate project. They also said that Cohen had a 20-minute phone call with a Kremlin official in which Cohen asked the Russian government for help securing financing and land for Trump’s tower in January 2016.

Cohen’s lawyers wrote in the statement Friday that Trump was fully briefed by Cohen about the request for help from the Kremlin while Trump was running for president.

In addition to being Trump’s personal lawyer and fixer, Cohen was also an executive of the Trump Organization at the time.

News about the Trump Tower Moscow proposal came out in 2017 and subsequently Cohen was called to testify to Congress about his role in it. He was also questioned about other Russia-related matters that involved the Trump campaign and presidency.

On Thursday Cohen admitted to a federal judge that he lied to Congress about the extensive nature of his and Donald Trump’s involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow project.

Cohen falsely told the congressional committees that the Moscow project died in January 2016, but in fact it was still alive and he and Trump were working on it through June of 2016.

Cohen’s lawyers said in the new filing that Cohen’s false testimony was prepared while Cohen “remained in close and regular contact with White House-based staff and legal counsel” to Trump. They said Cohen “specifically knew” that Trump and his spokespersons sought to portray the Moscow project as “effectively terminated” before the Iowa caucuses in February of 2016.

“At the time, Michael justified his false summary of the matter on the ground that the Moscow project ultimately did not go forward,” the lawyers wrote.

On Thursday, Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress about the Moscow project; he is expected to be sentenced next week. He will also learn how much time he will serve behind bars for charges of financial and election fraud for his role in paying off two alleged Trump mistresses, which he pleaded guilty to in August.

The new accusations concerning President Trump were made by Cohen’s lawyers in a sentencing memorandum that was delivered to a federal judge in Manhattan on Friday night.

Donald Trump has been downplaying his knowledge of the Moscow Trump Tower project, but Michael Cohen has now filed a court document saying he knew everything and was intimately involved in the project every step of the way. And Cohen said that his lies to Congress were in effect drafted with the knowledge and assistance of Donald Trump and his lawyers.

Trump keeps trying to run away from this scandal, but the faster he tries to run, the more it catches up with him.

It is only a matter of time now until the scandal completely envelops him. The presidency of Donald Trump will soon be over.

[bronco67]

Just like I said last night. It's going to be one bomb drop after another for the next few weeks until it decimates this presidency. I will say say one thing about Trump's presidency...it's fucking resilient. Many of these stories alone would kill an adminstration, but he's withstanding one after another and that's mostly because we have a congress who chooses to stick it's head up it's own ass and ignore the criminal behavior. They should have an even heavier price to pay after this is all over. Every Republican member of congress should be either expelled or tried for treason.

[Acepimp]

So Cohen didn't remember the exact date of a proposed *legal* deal in Russia, which never even happened.

Ok, what does that have to do with Trump-Russia collusion to somehow rig the election?

"..might end the Trump presidency" LOL!

You guys crack me up

[Bladewire]

Originally Posted by bronco67

Just like I said last night. It's going to be one bomb drop after another for the next few weeks until it decimates this presidency. I will say say one thing about Trump's presidency...it's fucking resilient. Many of these stories alone would kill an adminstration, but he's withstanding one after another and that's mostly because we have a congress who chooses to stick it's head up it's own ass and ignore the criminal behavior. They should have an even heavier price to pay after this is all over. Every Republican member of congress should be either expelled or tried for treason.

His presidency is only resilient because Republicans aided in his obstruction of justice for 2 years (thanks Nunes).

If Republicans cared about America they would have put Trump in check long ago. But noooo Republicans had to rob the treasury, that's all they do aside from punishing LGBTQ, women & minorities. Republicans can't govern, only steal and project hate.

[Rochard]

So Donald Trump and his staff instructed Cohen to lie. Why does this not surprise me?

If I understand correctly, Cohen was in direct communication with Putin's office. Think about that for a moment. They were building a tower in Moscow and instead of going through the city office like everyone else, they went to the leader of the country. That's like trying to open up a restaurant in Washington DC and going through the White House to get it done. If that isn't bad enough, they offered a $50 million bribe in the form of a free condo in NYC for Putin himself.

How the fuck is this acceptable?

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by Acepimp

Ok, what does that have to do with Trump-Russia collusion to somehow rig the election?

You just keep proving over and over how dumb you are.

It has everything to do with Russian collusion and rigging the election. There's overlap between people involved in the deal and people who are known to have been involved in the hacking. The president covered up the business with the Russian Trump Tower deal while in the middle of an election which was currently being infiltrated by the very country he was trying to deal with. He offered Putin a penthouse to sweeten the deal. When you build something big in Russia, it goes through Putin and the government -- not the local developers. None of this makes sense to you, I know.