Consigliere Michael Cohen tells nothing to House Intel committee ... who says? Closed session was described as contentious … whodathought Trump’s personal lawyer would be uncooperative?
And what’s the obsession with Clinton and supposed uranium sales to Russia for the House intel committee…. because no one needs to be reminded of US military deaths in Niger…. except… if Nunes and the GOP follow the ridiculous claim they actually get back to Russian resource interests, in which Trump and his crowd have also had a hand — ZOMG. Shades of strategic interests also related to the GWOT in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran...
Here are five deeply disturbing events that congressional investigators will surely press Michael Cohen on in their meetings:
1. October 28, 2015: Michael Cohen had Donald Trump, already a presidential candidate, sign a Letter of Intent to build Trump Tower Moscow with Moscow-based developer I.C. Expert Investment Co.
2. November 3, 2015: Michael Cohen received an email from Trump aide and Russian mobster Felix Sater saying of Donald Trump “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,. I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this, I will manage this process.”
3. January 2016: Michael Cohen emailed Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov asking for help to advance the Trump Tower Moscow Project.
4. June 2016: Michael Cohen, while serving as a top Trump campaign surrogate, was invited by Felix Sater i to the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and was promised introductions to top Russian government officials.
5. January 27, 2017: Michael Cohen, Felix Sater, and Ukrainian politician Andrii Artemenko wrote a plan to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict and lift US sanctions on Russia which Cohen reportedly delivered to then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Donald Trump’s first official call to Vladimir Putin as President took place the next day.
In his statement released ahead of that September (Senate committee) meeting, Cohen forcefully denied knowledge of any Russian efforts to influence the election.
“Given my own proximity to the president of the United States as a candidate, let me also say that I never saw anything -- not a hint of anything -- that demonstrated his involvement in Russian interference in our election or any form of Russian collusion,” he said of Trump.
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