The House Intelligence Committee has released transcripts of its private interviews with Michael Cohen, revealing that he told lawmakers President Trump‘s attorney Jay Sekulow encouraged him to testify falsely to Congress in 2017 about the duration of discussions around building a Trump property in Moscow.
The committee interviewed Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer,” behind closed doors on February 28 and March 6 — before he reported to prison to serve a three-year sentence for bank fraud, campaign finance violations and other charges — as part of an investigation into the president’s business dealings in Russia and other foreign countries.
The interview focused heavily on Cohen’s previous false statement to Congress on discussions within the Trump Organization about building a Trump Tower in Moscow as well as other topics.