코언 "트럼프,10년 동안 500여차례 협박하라 시켰다" VIDEO: Michael Cohen’s testimony could be bad news for Donald Trump Jr.

Michael Cohen’s testimony could be bad news for Donald Trump Jr.

Cohen’s account of Trump Tower Moscow doesn’t seem to square with what Trump Jr. told Congress.

By Aaron Rupar@atrupar  Feb 27, 2019,

It seems either Michael Cohen or Donald Trump Jr. hasn’t told Congress the truth about Trump Jr.’s involvement in Trump Tower Moscow discussions.

Donald Trump Jr. (R) greets his father during the town hall debate at Washington University on October 9, 2016, in St Louis, Missouri. Rick Wilking-Pool/Getty Images

코언 "트럼프,10년 동안 500여차례 협박하라 시켰다"     도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 개인 변호사였던 마이클 코언이 미국 국회의원들에게 트럼프 대통령이 지난 10년 동안 자신에게 500여차례의 협박을 가하도록 시켰다고 밝혔다. 재키 스피어 민주당 하원의원은 "트럼프 대통령이 자기를 대신해 개인이나 조직을 위협하라고 몇 번이나 지시했느냐"고 물었다.  이에 대해 코언은 "꽤 많이 그랬다"고 답했다.    도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령의 전 개인변호사인 마이클 코언이 26일(현지시간) 워싱턴 상원 정보위원회의 비공개 청문회에 출석하면서 취재진의 질문에 답변을 하고 있다. 코언은 이날 지난 2017년 미 상원 정보위원회에서 거짓 증언한 것을 사과하고 "진실을 말할 기회가 주어져 매우 감사하다＂며 트럼프 대통령의 불법행위를 증언할 것이라고 말했다. /quartz edited by kcontents 스피어 의원이 50번, 100번, 200번, 500번이었느냐는 질문에 코언은 500번에서 말을 막고 "아마도 그럴 것"이라고 말했다. (서울=뉴스1) 김정한 기자

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During his testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Cohen — Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer — testified that during the 2016 presidential campaign, he briefed Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump about the proposed Trump Tower Moscow project about 10 times.

But Cohen’s testimony doesn’t seem to square with what Donald Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017, long before Cohen was raided by the FBI and started cooperating with investigators.

Trump Jr. told Congress that he “wasn’t involved” in the Cohen-led efforts to build a tower in Moscow, knew “very little” about it, and was only “peripherally aware of it” before news coverage of the matter in 2017.

In short, he minimized his role and pleaded ignorance about the whole thing.

Here’s an excerpt of Trump Jr.’s testimony:

 

Lying to Congress is a crime. In fact, it’s one Cohen pleaded guilty to in November in connection with his own testimony about Trump Tower Moscow.

During that September 2017 testimony, Cohen said that discussions within the Trump Organization about Trump Tower Moscow ended in January 2016. But in November, he pleaded guilty to lying about that, and said discussions about the project actually continued until June 2016. Trump’s new personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has recently suggested they may have continued all the way until October or November 2016.

Of course, the fact that Cohen has already copped to lying to Congress raises questions about the truthfulness of what he’s now saying under oath. On Wednesday, he explained the discrepancy between what he said then and now by saying, “Last time I appeared before Congress, I came to protect Trump. Today, I am here to tell the truth about Mr. Trump.”

“The lies I told to Congress benefited Trump, in furtherance of my protection of Mr. Trump,” Cohen said. “I am not protecting Trump anymore.”

“To be clear, Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign, and lied about it,” he added. “He lied about it because he never expected to win. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars. And so I lied about it too.”

Cohen said “Trump’s personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it” — a comment that raises questions about whether Trump’s lawyers did the same thing before Trump Jr. testified around the same time.

 

On Twitter, Trump Jr. reacted to Cohen’s testimony on Wednesday by suggesting his father’s former lawyer is embittered he didn’t get a White House job and just wants to be famous.

Trump Jr. did not directly address Cohen’s testimony about Trump Tower Moscow.

Cohen also provided Congress with a copy of a March 2017 check for $35,000 that was signed by Trump Jr. and Trump Organization chief operating officer Allen Weisselberg. Cohen testified the check was one of 11 he received to reimburse him in installments for the illegal hush payment he made to Stormy Daniels on Trump’s behalf weeks before the 2016 election.

Though it’s unclear whether Donald Trump and other Trump Organization officials like Trump Jr. were aware that the payments to Daniels and Karen McDougal, another woman who says she had an affair with Trump, violated campaign finance laws that make it illegal to make an unreported donation of more than $2,700 to a candidate in a general election, Cohen acknowledged under questioning from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) that the hush payments scheme is akin to a criminal conspiracy.

https://www.vox.com/2019/2/27/18243569/michael-cohen-testimony-trump-tower-moscow-donald-trump-jr

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