In his public testimony before Congress in February, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, was explicit during his opening statement about what Trump didn’t do.
“Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress,” Cohen said, referring to his untrue assertion in a statement offered to congressional investigators in 2017 that discussions about a possible Trump-branded real estate project in Moscow had ended in January 2017. For this falsehood, Cohen reached a plea agreement with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III last year.
But Cohen continued:
View the complete May 20 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.