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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 08:14 AM Jul 2018

Trump accuses Michael Cohen of lying about Trump Tower meeting

Source: Axios

President Trump unleashed a series of tweets Friday morning, accusing his former lawyer Michael Cohen of lying "in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam" and denying that he had any knowledge of Don Jr’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer.

"I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!"

— One of President Trump's morning tweets

Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-tweets-michael-cohen-lying-don-jr-mueller-b1e9deb7-845c-477c-bcf6-3e381217877f.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic&utm_content=1100






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Trump accuses Michael Cohen of lying about Trump Tower meeting (Original Post) demmiblue Jul 2018 OP
LOL - Trump has 0 credibility on anything NewJeffCT Jul 2018 #1
0 is totally correct DownriverDem Jul 2018 #16
When is Cohen going to get a diminutive nickname? (n/t) forgotmylogin Jul 2018 #19
Sweat traitor..sweat! Maxheader Jul 2018 #2
He is shitting his pants. watoos Jul 2018 #4
He's so predictable n/t Lulu KC Jul 2018 #3
I can hardly wait until UpInArms Jul 2018 #5
Remember when he floated the trial balloon that it wasn't really his voice on the Access Hollywood markses66 Jul 2018 #22
They will find that lkilling is a dirty business UpInArms Jul 2018 #28
bring em on..... cntrfthrs Jul 2018 #29
Am I understanding this correctly? HuskyOffset Jul 2018 #6
LOL a conspiracy for the truly paranoid paranoid delusional bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #8
To be fair there is no evidence that he did know about it beforehand or atleast not yet. cstanleytech Jul 2018 #18
Who do I believe? Archae Jul 2018 #7
This information came from a different meeting. watoos Jul 2018 #9
If Hicks and Cohen corroborate one another bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #10
She helped to write the statement on AF1 BumRushDaShow Jul 2018 #13
That's rich! sakabatou Jul 2018 #11
That's why the orange bafoon leaked it! Very very predictable Thekaspervote Jul 2018 #12
You mean bucolic_frolic Jul 2018 #14
Keep tweeting, traitor dalton99a Jul 2018 #15
the orange assholes flailings are just sad now. nt Javaman Jul 2018 #17
This message was self-deleted by its author forgotmylogin Jul 2018 #20
OK traitor------------------prove it...............scumbag turbinetree Jul 2018 #21
Finally Donald is Telling the Truth 🤥 Ccarmona Jul 2018 #23
LOL. Trump disses Cohen for doing the same thing Trump did: hire a former Clinton lawyer. SunSeeker Jul 2018 #24
Wait a minute... MissMillie Jul 2018 #25
When will he correct it to be "I meant to say, 'I did NOT *NOT* know of the meeting with...'" berni_mccoy Jul 2018 #26
Michael Cohen said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. tclambert Jul 2018 #27
 

markses66

(94 posts)
22. Remember when he floated the trial balloon that it wasn't really his voice on the Access Hollywood
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 10:55 AM
Jul 2018

tape.

It's coming.

We are already at the "Who you gonna believe, me or yer lyin' eyes/ears?" stage with the Trump cult. It's only going to get worse.

It's probably time for people who want to survive this to start looking for exit options. The cult is millions deep and itching for the word to start violence. They're going to murder people in large numbers.

cntrfthrs

(252 posts)
29. bring em on.....
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 11:46 PM
Jul 2018

I'm not call guntotin'librul for nothing....and there's 100's of thousands more like me....

HuskyOffset

(889 posts)
6. Am I understanding this correctly?
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 08:37 AM
Jul 2018

Trump didn’t conspire with the Russians, the Democrats did. The accusation that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting beforehand is not only false news, but also comes from Hillary Clinton!

So, the same old song: it wasn’t me, I didn’t do it, it was Hillary Clinton!

Wow. Just...wow.

bucolic_frolic

(43,190 posts)
8. LOL a conspiracy for the truly paranoid paranoid delusional
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 08:42 AM
Jul 2018

Trump's BS over this witch hunt propaganda just can't be allowed to stand, unanswered, or go on too much longer

cstanleytech

(26,298 posts)
18. To be fair there is no evidence that he did know about it beforehand or atleast not yet.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 09:36 AM
Jul 2018

If evidence is found that proves he did though then our guys should push for impeachment.
Granted the Repugnants are likely to block such an attempt and if it should come to a vote they will do a sham vote so it fails to reach the required number to remove him but either way its a win for us because we can and should slam them for it before every election for the next 20+ years.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
9. This information came from a different meeting.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 08:46 AM
Jul 2018

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Jr. telling Sr. about the Russian meeting happened in a separate meeting.
I believe Hope Hicks was also in this meeting and she has already testified to Mueller. Did she lie or tell the truth?

BumRushDaShow

(129,113 posts)
13. She helped to write the statement on AF1
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 09:03 AM
Jul 2018
Mueller Zeros In on Story Put Together About Trump Tower Meeting

By Jo Becker, Mark Mazzetti, Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman

Jan. 31, 2018

<...>

Accusations began flying that the botched response made an already bad situation worse. Ms. Hicks called Mr. Corallo, according to three people who relayed his version of events to The Times. She accused him of trafficking in conspiracy theories and drawing more attention to the story. The conference call with the president, Mr. Corallo and Ms. Hicks took place the next morning, and what transpired on the call is a matter of dispute.

In Mr. Corallo’s account — which he provided contemporaneously to three colleagues who later gave it to The Times — he told both Mr. Trump and Ms. Hicks that the statement drafted aboard Air Force One would backfire because documents would eventually surface showing that the meeting had been set up for the Trump campaign to get political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians.

According to his account, Ms. Hicks responded that the emails “will never get out” because only a few people had access to them. Mr. Corallo, who worked as a Justice Department spokesman during the George W. Bush administration, told colleagues he was alarmed not only by what Ms. Hicks had said — either she was being naïve or was suggesting that the emails could be withheld from investigators — but also that she had said it in front of the president without a lawyer on the phone and that the conversation could not be protected by attorney-client privilege.

<...>

In the days that followed the Air Force One statement, The Times revealed that the true purpose of the June 2016 meeting was to obtain damaging information about Mrs. Clinton, which was being offered as “part of Russia and its government’s support” for Mr. Trump. The younger Mr. Trump ultimately released the emails after being told The Times was about to publish them. Within weeks, Mr. Mueller sent out grand jury subpoenas for documents and interviews about the June 2016 meeting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html

Response to demmiblue (Original post)

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
21. OK traitor------------------prove it...............scumbag
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 10:37 AM
Jul 2018

after all asshole you dictated a note from air force one..............any first year law student would put that one on one case in play..............................so your a lying traitor...............Treason is still treason asshole................again prove it...........................if this wasn't so funny coming from and traitor it would be well.....................


And number two asshole..................lets have your son's phone..................and the Russians did meet in your fucked up building in the July day................... ...................keep digging that holes asshole..............

 

Ccarmona

(1,180 posts)
23. Finally Donald is Telling the Truth 🤥
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 10:57 AM
Jul 2018

So there are documented tallies of Trump’s lies that are now in the thousands, but today were supposed to believe he’s tweeting the truth.

SunSeeker

(51,574 posts)
24. LOL. Trump disses Cohen for doing the same thing Trump did: hire a former Clinton lawyer.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 11:57 AM
Jul 2018

Both Cohen AND Trump have hired former Clinton lawyers.

Trump hires Clinton impeachment lawyer Emmet Flood https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/02/ty-cobb-resigns-565621

"Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!" 

MissMillie

(38,562 posts)
25. Wait a minute...
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 11:59 AM
Jul 2018

"the only Collusion with Russia was with the Democrats,"

The sad thing is... there are people who will buy that.

 

berni_mccoy

(23,018 posts)
26. When will he correct it to be "I meant to say, 'I did NOT *NOT* know of the meeting with...'"
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 12:04 PM
Jul 2018

That will happen.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)
27. Michael Cohen said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump.
Fri Jul 27, 2018, 01:06 PM
Jul 2018

Now he's taking bullets fired BY Donald Trump.

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