Russian interference: Donald Trump harmed by accusations of his former lawyer

The revelations of Donald Trump's former lawyer are shaking the White House. Michael Cohen says the US president has approved a meeting during the 2016 campaign between his son and a Russian lawyer who offered compromising information on Hillary Clinton, US media reported Thursday (July 26th). Donald Trump has always badured that he did not know anything at the time of this meeting, the existence of which is proven and for which Donald Trump Jr was heard before the Congress.

June 9, 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law, met at the Trump Tower in New York with a Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, whom they thought was an emissary of the Russian government able to provide information on Hillary Clinton, the Democratic rival of M. Trump. The meeting 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 put Hillary and his agreements with Russia in question 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 clan of the real estate mogul, the meeting did not give anything. Michael Cohen, former lawyer and trust man of Donald Trump who has now consumed his break with the billionaire Republican, ensures that the latter was aware of this appointment even before its holding, according to CNN and NBC. According to these sources, Mr. Cohen was present when his client was informed of the offer of meeting with the Russian lawyer, and Donald Trump would have approved the holding of the meeting. Sources told CNN, however, that Cohen did not have any evidence to support his statements

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." According to him, it was mainly question at the meeting of adoptions of Russian children. Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is investigating whether there has been a possible collusion between Moscow and Donald Trump's campaign team in the 2016 presidential election.

According to CNN and NBC, citing Anonymous sources, Mr. Cohen would be willing to repeat his statements to Mr. Mueller. The US president has always denied that his campaign team colluded with Russian officials, and he regularly calls Mr. Mueller's investigation a "witch hunt". Russia also denies any activity of this kind. Mueller indicted 31 people, including 12 Russian intelligence agents, for hacking computers from the Democratic Party.

Fighting with the president

This accusation by Mr. Cohen comes a few days after the revelation that a , dating back two months before the November 2016 presidential election, had been seized by FBI investigators in the lawyer's offices. 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 saying that a lawyer did not have to record his conversations with his clients.

M. Cohen now seems engaged in a fight with the president, and ready to collaborate with justice, even to compromise his former boss. After remaining loyal to the former real estate developer for months, even though he was already in turmoil and under investigation, Michael Cohen now plays, solo, his all-out to avoid a trial, or even prison .