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stjames1_53
08-27-2018, 06:49 AM
Cohen Attorney Backtracks On Claim That Trump Had Advance Knowledge Of Russian Hacking
Chuck Ross


Lanny Davis says he does not know whether President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacks of Democrats.
Earlier in August, Davis said his client, Michael Cohen, had information linking Trump to the hacks.
Now he claims that he merely had an “instinct” about what Trump knew.

Lanny Davis, an attorney for Michael Cohen, is backtracking from his stunning claim that President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacking efforts.
During interviews on Tuesday and Wednesday, Davis laid out a grave allegation against Trump, saying that Cohen had information that would be of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller, including about Russian hacking of Democrats’ emails.
In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Davis said Cohen, a former lawyer for Trump, has “knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.”
An in an interview Wednesday, Davis said his client “has information that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller in his probe of a conspiracy to corrupt American democracy, very similar to the indictment of the 12 Russians.”

Davis’s allegations, if accurate, would have had significant ramifications for the Mueller investigation, which is probing whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election. Trump has denied knowing about hacks of Democrats’ emails before they occurred.
But Davis is now telling The Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/attorney-for-michael-cohen-backs-away-from-confidence-that-cohen-has-information-about-trumps-knowledge-on-russian-efforts/2018/08/26/09d7f26e-a876-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e63bf951e8a2) that his comments were merely based on “instinct” and not direct knowledge about what Cohen knows.
Asked by WaPo on Saturday whether he was certain that Trump knew about computer hacks before they occurred, Davis told the newspaper: “I am not sure. There’s a possibility that is the case. But I am not sure.”

“I was giving an instinct that [Cohen] might have something to say of interest to the special counsel.”



Davis, a close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton, also went on the record with WaPo to reveal that he was an anonymous source for a story asserting that Cohen is willing to Mueller that he witnessed Trump approving the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a group of Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

CNN reported (https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html) July 27 that sources close to Cohen said he was present at a meeting where Donald Trump Jr. told his father about the Trump Tower meeting. Trump critics seized on the report, noting that Trump and Trump Jr. have both denied that the president knew about the meeting until it was reported in the press in July 2017.
But Davis said Wednesday night that the reporting of the story got “mixed up” and that Cohen does not know whether Trump had prior knowledge of the meeting.
“So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis.
“No, he does not,” Davis said.
According to WaPo, Davis was an anonymous source for a story that the newspaper ran in July confirming the CNN report. WaPo cited “a person familiar with Cohen’s thinking” who said that Cohen was interested in talking about Trump’s advance knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting with Mueller.
Though Davis spoke to WaPo for its initial story, the newspaper reported in that piece that “Davis declined to comment on the CNN report Thursday night.”
He told WaPo on Saturday: “I should have been more clear — including with you — that I could not independently confirm what happened. I regret my error.”
For its part, CNN has refused to address its faulty reporting. The network has not corrected its July 27 story, and its anchors have not addressed the flub on air.
Brian Stelter, the host of CNN’s media criticism show “Reliable Sources,” on Sunday interviewed Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters who wrote the article. The false story did not come up in their discussion. Instead, Stelter and Bernstein railed against Trump.
CNN did not respond to numerous requests for comment from The Daily Caller News Foundation. But a spokeswoman for the network told WaPo on Saturday: “We stand by our story, and are confident in our reporting of it.”

http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/26/lanny-davis-trump-hacking/

So, Mueller is going to squeeze someone who cannot prove a claim. This is about enough of this nonsense......

texan
08-27-2018, 06:52 AM
http://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=8f1fa639-a884-4d3f-87eb-bd50914a2690&appid=1125

how many people are we on now that just made $hit up in a rush for credit to lynch a president? The count is so high now it is a joke.

stjames1_53
08-27-2018, 06:59 AM
http://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=8f1fa639-a884-4d3f-87eb-bd50914a2690&appid=1125

how many people are we on now that just made $hit up in a rush for credit to lynch a president? The count is so high now it is a joke.

already been posted..............sorry texan .... beat ya to the finish line
http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/100489-Cohen-Attorney-Backtracks-On-Claim-That-Trump-Had-Advance-Knowledge-Of-Russian-Hackin

DGUtley
08-27-2018, 06:59 AM
Michael Cohen's Attorney Backpedals On Trump-Russia Claims. Lanny Davis - the attorney for Michael Cohen, has massively backpedaled on "confident assertions" that Cohen would share information with investigators that President Trump knew of Russian efforts to undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton - a lifelong friend of Davis'.


https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/stunning-reversal-michael-cohens-attorney-backpedals-trump-russia-claims

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stjames1_53
08-27-2018, 07:04 AM
http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/100489-Cohen-Attorney-Backtracks-On-Claim-That-Trump-Had-Advance-Knowledge-Of-Russian-Hackin

already been posted, D......................

DGUtley
08-27-2018, 07:05 AM
NOTICE - Threads merged.

stjames1_53
08-27-2018, 07:24 AM
must be a very hot topic

NOTICE - Threads merged.

stjames1_53
08-27-2018, 07:25 AM
Like texan said, everyone wants their 5 minutes

MMC
08-27-2018, 07:38 AM
“So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis.

“No, he does not,” Davis said.....snip~


Anderson was devastated. You know the commercial break was needed.

https://antzinpantz.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/cnn-fake-news.jpg

MisterVeritis
08-27-2018, 11:26 AM
http://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=8f1fa639-a884-4d3f-87eb-bd50914a2690&appid=1125

how many people are we on now that just made $hit up in a rush for credit to lynch a president? The count is so high now it is a joke.
The coup attempt remains quite popular with the coup supporters and the coup cheerleaders. It will take trials, convictions, and executions to turn this around.

Tahuyaman
08-27-2018, 11:59 AM
Lanny Davis got caught promoting a lie. Now he's trying to cover his arse.

MisterVeritis
08-27-2018, 12:04 PM
Lanny Davis lied. Disbar him. We need to fight back with all the tools at our disposal. Haul him before a House committee. Then haul him before a Senate committee. Continue to harass him until he is bankrupted.

Don't let him get away with it. Seek out his friends and haul them before the committees. Harass them. Set perjury traps. Indict them. Bankrupt them. The left showed us how this is to be done. It is time to make the left bleed.

Captdon
08-27-2018, 01:33 PM
Mueller is supposed to be very smart. Cohen played him. Cohen fooled Mueller into a plea deal based on information he didn't really have or said he had. His invoice was a fraud and Mueller couldn't see it.

All these flipping people and Muller can't touch Trump. He gets the Left all riled up and giddy and then the truth comes out to screw with their heads.

Tahuyaman
08-27-2018, 05:27 PM
MV is being rather restrained on this one. I expected him to say that Davis needs to be pubiclly executed.

MisterVeritis
08-27-2018, 05:34 PM
MV is being rather restrained on this one. I expected him to say that Davis needs to be pubiclly executed.
Based on what crime? A lawyer lied. Investigate him. If appropriate disbar him. He is also a leftist. So let's use the tools the left has used against the right. Demand he appears before Congress. Grill him. Repeat. Try to find some perjury to charge him with. Harass his friends and allies.

Tahuyaman
08-27-2018, 05:37 PM
Based on what crime? A lawyer lied. Investigate him. If appropriate disbar him. He is also a leftist. So let's use the tools the left has used against the right. Demand he appears before Congress. Grill him. Repeat. Try to find some perjury to charge him with. Harass his friends and allies.


Im still surprised that you haven't called for his execution as a coup plotter.

MisterVeritis
08-27-2018, 05:40 PM
Im still surprised that you haven't called for his execution as a coup plotter.
I have seen no evidence that Lanny Davis is a coup plotter. if you have evidence I am open to it. Please summarize what you know and, if you can, provide a link.

Thanks in advance.

Tahuyaman
08-27-2018, 06:01 PM
I have seen no evidence that Lanny Davis is a coup plotter. if you have evidence I am open to it. Please summarize what you know and, if you can, provide a link.

Thanks in advance.

You are a hoot.

MMC
08-28-2018, 10:04 AM
Check Your Sources: CNN's Cohen-Russia-Trump Tower Meeting Story Just Blew Up In Their Faces....

Well, their latest screw up is just as epic. Remember this story about Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen saying he knew that Trump was aware of the 2016meeting his son took with some Russians at Trump Tower, which turned out to be a big waste of time in which nothing of any importance was divulged. Yeah, CNN was on it last July (https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/26/politics/michael-cohen-donald-trump-june-2016-meeting-knowledge/index.html) [emphasis mine]:

Sources. Well, the source was Lanny Davis, former Clinton lawyer who is now representing Cohen—and he pretty much took back everything he said. Yet, the fact that no evidence existed to corroborate the claim in the first place probably should have raised red flags, but whatever. Its just part of the elite media’s serial failure in reporting on this White House accurately (via Buzzfeed (https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/lanny-davis-cnn-trump-tower-story)) [emphasis mine]:

Oh, and the network is standing by what is now a hollow, gutted corpse of a story (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/27/cnn-stands-by-report-that-president-knew-about-trump-tower-meeting-as-cohen-lawyer-recants.html). This is CNN.

UPDATE: Even liberal writers are saying this was a pretty bad trip-up, maybe one of the worst in the whole Russia collusion reporting cycle......snip~

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattv...-tower-meeting-story-just-blew-up-in-n2513576 (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/08/28/check-your-sources-cnns-cohen-russia-trump-tower-meeting-story-just-blew-up-in-n2513576)



Well its back to the Trump Russian Collusion. Cohen and CEO of the National Enquirer turns out to be nothing-burgers. Just like Dershowitz said.