Trump denies giving green light to controversial meeting with Russian

Trump denies giving green light to controversial meeting with Russian
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Donald Trump denied on Friday that he had previously known of a meeting during the presidential campaign between his son Don Jr and a Russian lawyer offering compromising information about Hillary Clinton.

Michael Cohen, former president's personal attorney – who has fallen out of favor and multiplies the embarrbading revelations for his former client – says the latter has approved the holding of this meeting on June 9, 2016 at the Trump Tower in New York, headquarters of the Trump campaign

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The revelation nine months after the vote of holding this meeting with the young woman suspected of being close to the Russian intelligence services had the effect of a bombshell. in the context of a federal inquiry into a possible collusion between Donald Trump's campaign team and Moscow, which poisons the presidency.

The President has always said that he did not know anything at the time of this meeting. the existence is proven and for which Donald Trump Jr. was heard before the Congress. The campaign has always downplayed it.

On June 9, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, spoke at the Trump Tower in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya. they thought they were an emissary of the Russian government capable of providing information about Mrs. Clinton, the democratic rival of Mr. Trump.

The meeting at the Trump Tower was arranged by a musical producer, Rob Goldstone, who contacted Donald Trump Jr. and told him that he had "official documents and information that would implicate Hillary and his agreements. with Russia and that would be very useful for your father. "

Invitation

Donald Trump Jr. replied" I like it "and accepted the invitation.

But, according to the Trump clan, the meeting

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's former attorney and confidante who has now consumed his break with the Republican billionaire, says he was aware of the meeting even before it was held. CNN and NBC

According to these sources, Mr. Cohen was present when his client was informed of the offer to meet with the Russian lawyer, and Donald Trump would have approved the holding of the meeting.

sources have indicated to CNN that Mr. Cohen did not have evidence to support his statements, such as an audio recording.

Donald Jr. explained in the summer of 2017 about this meeting when the press revealed its existence.

"The woman, as she said publicly, was not a government official," Donald Jr. said in a statement, adding that she finally had "no information to give." [19659003AccordingtoTrumpJrthemaintopicofthemeetingwastheissueofadoptionsofRussianchildren

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is investigating whether there was collusion between Moscow and Russia Donald Trump's campaign team in the 2016 presidential election.

According to CNN and NBC, citing unnamed sources, Mr. Cohen would be willing to repeat his statements to Mr. Mueller.

US President always denied that collusion between his campaign team and Russian officials took place, and he regularly calls Mr. Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt". Russia also denies any such activity.

The very conciliatory attitude of the President at a recent summit in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – written down in his own camp – has revived the affair and suspicions.

A meeting chaired by Trump is due to be held Friday at the White House to discuss the risks of Russian attempts to influence parliamentary elections in November

Fighting with President

This accusation Mr. Cohen intervenes a few days after the revelation that a registration, dating back two months before the presidential election in November 2016, had been seized by the investigators of the Federal Police (FBI) in the offices of the lawyer. Donald Trump and Michael Cohen mentioned the possibility of buying the silence of an ex-playmate with which the president would have had an affair.

Donald Trump reacted by estimating that a lawyer did not have to record his conversations with his clients

M. Cohen now seems engaged in a fight with the billionaire, and be ready to collaborate with the justice, even to compromise his former client.

After remaining faithful to the former real estate developer for months, even as he was Michael Cohen is already in the turmoil and under investigation, and now plays his solo game to avoid a trial or even a prison.

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Washington (AFP) –
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