“We won the Mueller probe. We’re going to win this one. Here we go! I tell you what. If Mueller was a war this is a skirmish.”
— Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, quoted by Politico.
Cohen Testified Trump Lawyer Told Him to Lie
Michael Cohen “told a House panel during closed-door hearings earlier this year that he had been instructed by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow to falsely claim in a 2017 statement to Congress that negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ended in January 2016,” the Washington Post reports.
“House Democrats are now scrutinizing whether Sekulow or other Trump attorneys played a role in shaping Cohen’s 2017 testimony to Congress. Cohen has said he made the false statement to help hide the fact that Trump had potentially hundreds of millions of dollars at stake in a possible Russian project while he was running for president.”
Quote of the Day
“I had bad information at that time and made a mistake in my statement… Over time facts develop.”
— Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, on ABC News, admitting he was wrong when he once claimed President Trump was not involved in drafting his son’s false statement on the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer.
Trump Lawyer Promises Fight If Trump Subpoenaed
Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow told ABC News that the president’s legal team’s inclination at this point is not to have the president meet with special counsel Robert Mueller.
“If Mueller were to try to compel the president’s testimony, there would be a legal fight over the constitutionality of requiring such an act of a sitting president.”
Said Sekulow: “A subpoena for live testimony has never been tested in court as to the president of the United States.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire -- which for more than two decades has been one of the nation's most influential political news sites.
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