In other tweets Friday, Trump suggested Democrats were using Cohen to investigate his business dealings and finances because a two-year investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign “has fallen apart.” The president also referenced a description of Cohen’s book as a “love letter to Trump.” That echoed a characterization of a Cohen book proposal by journalist Liz Plank of Vox Media during a February 2018 appearance on MSNBC.ĭuring that broadcast, MSNBC host Ari Melber said Cohen had confirmed to him that he was working on a “tell-all book” about Trump. In his Friday tweets, Trump highlighted Davis’s associations with the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, whom he referred to as “Crooked Hillary.” “In my opinion, it is a sad misuse of the criminal justice system with the aura of pure partisanship.”ĭavis did not immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on Trump’s morning tweets.
known now have made a baseless criminal referral,” Davis said. “It may not be surprising that two pro-Trump Committee members. In a statement Thursday night, Lanny Davis, a lawyer for Cohen, said that he had testified truthfully during the Wednesday hearing before the House Oversight Committee. In a public hearing before a House hearing on Wednesday, Cohen also attacked Trump’s character, calling him a con man and a racist and voicing deep regret for working by his side for more than a decade.
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“Like a different person! He is totally discredited!”Ĭohen spent three days on Capitol Hill this week in a dramatic series of public and private hearings in which he apologized for previously lying to lawmakers and divulged what he said Trump knew about financial infractions and Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. “Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony,” Trump wrote.
“Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!” Trump said in morning tweets, in which he accused Cohen of committing perjury during a congressional hearing and called on Congress to demand the book manuscript, which Trump claimed was recently finished. WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump sought to attack the credibility Friday of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen by pointing to a book that he has reportedly proposed that depicts Trump far more favorably than did the scathing testimony he delivered to Congress this week.
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