New Witness: What can Müller tell Müller Trump's former lawyer

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Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen can testify against the president. According to CNN sources, Cohen claims that Trump was in the know and approved the meeting of his representatives with lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya. She promised to convey to Trump closely compromising information to Hillary Clinton.

Details

• Now the famous meeting in Trump Tower took place in June 2016, in the midst of the election race. The son of the future president Donald Trump-Jr. was engaged in its organization. In addition to him, at a meeting with Veselnitskaya was the son -in -law of Trump Jared Kushner and the head of the campaign headquarters Paul Manafort.
• This meeting is one of the main episodes of the American investigation of the alleged intervention of Russia in the US election in 2016, although Veselnitskaya as a result, as a result, supposedly, as a result, was supposedly.
• It was organized at the request of the singer and businessman Emin Agalarov as PR manager Rob Goldstone, Nyt claimed.
• As it turned out from the later correspondence of Trump Jr. with Goldstone, Agalarov told the PR manager about the incriminator to Clinton, who was handed over to him, the owner of the Crocus Group Araz Agalarov, after meeting with the Royal Prosecutor. Who was talking about - it was not specified, but Nyt assumed that the general prosecutor Yuri Chaika could be hidden behind this formulation.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office rejected her involvement in the meeting. Veselnitskaya argued that she discussed the ban on the adoption by the Americans of Russian orphans.

What are Cohen's testimony changing?

• So far, Trump himself, his son, lawyers and officials of the White House have repeatedly stated that the future president learned about this meeting post -fact - in July 2017. Trump Jr. confirmed this version in his testimony before the Senate.
• But Cohen, according to CNN, now claims the opposite. He says that he was personally present at the moment when Trump Jr. told his father about the invitation received. According to a lawyer, he approved this meeting, reports CNN sources.
• Cohen does not have material evidence, but he allegedly is ready to give appropriate testimony to the special prosecutor Robert Muller, who conducts the case of interference in the elections. Thus, Cohen hopes to softenthe accusations of his own address - both on intervention and inthe case of the alleged payments of Trump for the silence of the pornstar.
• Before receiving the prosecution, Cohen twice testified to Congress about Russia's intervention in the elections, but never mentioned that Trump knew about the meeting in Trump Tower.

Why is it important?

After the meeting of Putin and Trump in Helsinki, many influential congressmen began to demand tightening sanctions against Russia. This can happen in the fall.

• Congress is going to approve the new package of sanctions to intermediate elections in the United States, which should be held in November. This was stated yesterday by the head of the Senate Committee on International Affairs Bob Corker. Senators began to discuss the tightening of sanctions after the meeting of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Helsinki.

In detail about how Congress wants to punish Russia for interfering in the elections, we wrote here and here . But there is another reason for the introduction of new sanctions:

• On July 26, the Republican Ed Royce sent a letter to the president in which he reminded Trump about the need to make a decision on sanctions against Russia for poisoning in London Sergey and Julia Skripaley. This is “extremely important to prevent new attacks,” he writes.
• Royce also recalled that the Trump administration has already missed the deadline for a month on the approval of these sanctions, and gave the president two weeks to inform Congress about his decision.
• Sanctions should act and tighten until Russia provides guarantees that it will not use chemical weapons in the future, the senator suggests.

All hopes that the meeting of Putin and Trump will help turn the situation did not materialize. “The reaction within the United States blocks any dialogue. The threat of wider sanctions has increased, ”the Russian billionaire, who got into the“ Kremlin List ”of the US Treasury, told Reuters.

Liana Faizova