Lawyer: Cohen witnessed Trump's 'awareness' of hacked Dem emails before they were released

Source: The Hill

Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis suggested Wednesday that President Trump knew about hacked Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails before they were released during the 2016 presidential election.

Davis asserted during an appearance on CNN’s “Situation Room” that Cohen, Trump's former longtime personal attorney, observed Trump's "awareness" of the hacked emails before they were published by WikiLeaks.

"I believe that he (Cohen) observed and saw Mr. Trump being aware of the use of e-mails to damage (Democratic presidential nominee) Hillary Clinton's campaign. That could only have been derived through illegal hacking from a Russian agency called Wikileaks," Davis said. "I believe there is some information Mr. Cohen could provide to [special counsel Robert] Mueller that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller."

“What I’m suggesting is that Mr. Cohen was an observer and was a witness to Mr. Trump’s awareness of those emails before they were dropped and it would pertain to the hacking of the email accounts,” he continued.

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