It's getting hot in here.
Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen has secured a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. Cohen is in court today pleading guilty for lying to Congress in the Trump-Russia investigation.
New in today's reporting, CNN reports that...
According to the info being read out, Cohen made a false statement regarding Trump Tower deal in Moscow that he was working on in 2015 & 2016. He had discussion about the project even later. Cohen previously said the deal was stopped in January 2016.
From ABC News, earlier this morning:
Cohen is scheduled to appear in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday where he is expected to enter a guilty plea for misstatements to Congress in closed-door testimony last year about his contacts with Russians during the presidential campaign.
Once among the president’s most loyal and zealous defenders in business and politics, Cohen has now promised to “put family and country first” by cooperating with prosecutors, becoming perhaps the most pivotal public witness against his former boss.
Cohen’s earlier plea deal with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York implicated President Trump in campaign finance felonies. Since then, Cohen has spent more than 70 hours in interviews with Mueller's team. The questioning has focused on contacts with Russians by Trump associates during the campaign, Trump’s business ties to Russia, obstruction of justice and talk of possible pardons, sources familiar with the discussions have told ABC News.
"This was solely a real estate deal and nothing more." Was that the lie? If so, what more was there to the deal? https://t.co/oyMWuC7GL4
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 29, 2018
Will we finally learn whether Michael Cohen has ever been to Prague?
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) November 29, 2018
Flashback to our scoop from May - Michael Cohen worked on the Trump Tower Moscow deal for longer than he told Congress https://t.co/RMkq8ZP3Uq
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) November 29, 2018
I did find one false statement in his testimony
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— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 29, 2018
Deutschebank has been implicated in Russian money laundering AND big loans to Trump (who owed almost half a billion dollars to the bank as of 2018) and Kushner - who got his $$ just before election day. #Russia #Mueller https://t.co/MG2CqKYe3v
— Nina Burleigh (@ninaburleigh) November 29, 2018
No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) November 29, 2018
