Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s top attorney, said Monday that Trump did not talk to Michael Cohen before the former lawyer’s testimony to Congress.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, Giuliani said Trump “never” spoke with Cohen, a day after he said he “didn’t know” if Trump had spoken to him about the testimony.
Cohen has admitted to lying to Congress in his 2017 testimony about discussions for developing a Trump Tower deal in Moscow. Trump and Cohen’s potential contact is under renewed scrutiny after a bombshell BuzzFeed News report said Trump had directed his former “fixer” to lie in testimony.
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s top attorney, said Monday that Trump did not talk to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen about Cohen’s testimony to Congress.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, Giuliani said Trump “never” spoke with Cohen, and he had confirmed that point with ex-lead counsel John Dowd, among other former members of the president’s legal team.
“The president never spoke with Cohen about the congressional testimony,” Giuliani told the Daily News in a report published a day after he said he “didn’t know” about the matter.
Giuliani added that the president’s legal team had contact with conversed with Cohen’s lawyers, and possibly Cohen himself, head of his September 2017 testimony to the House and Senate intelligence committees.
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