Trump's role in Cohen's lies
By Aaron Blake
December 1 at 9:49 AM
Late Friday night brought another twist in the Michael Cohen saga, with his lawyers filing a lengthy sentencing submission seeking leniency for the crimes he has pleaded guilty to ...
... Cohen lied to Congress about his efforts, on behalf of Trump, to secure a deal for Trump Tower Moscow. Those efforts persisted beyond the January 2016 date he had previously claimed — extending through the 2016 GOP primary season. We also found out from Cohen’s plea deal that he had briefed Trump on the effort more extensively than he previously claimed ...
... Cohen’s lawyers never directly say anybody told him to lie. They say that his testimony was meant to echo the White House’s line and that he consulted with them, but it’s never directly stated that it was requested that he lie. Hence, he’s not quite saying his lies were part of a White House-involved conspiracy to lie to Congress ...
... Cohen also discloses that he has talked to authorities in New York about their Trump-related probes ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/01/takeaways-about-trumps-role-cohens-lies-cohens-new-filing/?utm_term=.ec2fef26d9e2