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In the case of Russia, US President Donald Trump is threatened with new adversity. His former lawyer Michael Cohen claims that Trump approved a meeting of his son with a Russian lawyer
The son of US President Donald Trump Jr. expresses at an election rally in Montana on July 5th. (Photo: Joshua Roberts / Reuters)
(afp) US President Donald Trump is under pressure due to his son's explosive encounter with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 election campaign. Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen led according to media reports in the field, Trump had approved the meeting in advance. The chairman rejected this proposal on the grounds that he did not know the meeting.
The meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and attorney Natalia Weselnizkaja in June 2016 seems to play a key role in the investigator's special investigations Robert Mueller on the alleged interventions of the Russian campaign . Weselnizkaja had already offered incriminating evidence on Trump's rival Hillary Clinton, as Trump's son admitted. According to him, she would have had to present but not yet.
Lack of Evidence
Cohen is ready to testify before Mueller that Trump has given the green light for the meeting with the Russians, reported the CNN television channel and NBC News. The lawyer wants to have been there in a conversation between Trump and his son. According to CNN, Cohen, however, does not have evidence, such as sound recordings of this alleged conversation.
Trump has always claimed to have learned the Weselnizkaja encounter only when the media reported on it in July 2017. At current reports of Cohen's alleged insider information, he wrote on Twitter: "It seems to me that someone is trying to tell stories to get bogged down in another case."
pressure. It is the subject of an investigation for possible illegal business practices. It should go according to media reports, among other things, possible illegal illegal payments such as those to porn actress Stormy Daniels. She wants to have had a sexual adventure with Trump in 2006. Cohen paid her $ 130,000 just before the 2016 election so she did not say it.
The Man Behind the Scenes
Cohen worked for Trump for a decade or so and was considered his "cleaner". who cleaned the unpleasant business behind the scenes. Investigations against former Trump attorney are being conducted by New York federal prosecutors, so separately to the Mueller investigation. But even the special investigator should be keenly interested in Truth's internal knowledge about Trump.
Mueller's investigations have so far led to indictments against 31 suspects, including four former Trump employees. He also examines whether Trump, after taking office, tried to hinder the investigation of a possible illegal collusion of his team with Moscow. Trump routinely denounces the investigation as a "witch hunt" – an accusation he repeated on Friday.
The occasion was this time a report from the "New York Times", according to which Mueller also verifies Trump's tweets in his investigation into a possible judicial disability – including his Attacks on the Secretary of Justice Jeff Sessions and former FBI chief, James Comey, dismissed by the president. "(…) the witch hunt handled continues!" Trump tweeted. He called it "stupid and unfair for our country."
Another legal jungle
Other legal problems threaten the President during this time on the other side. Stormy Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, argued that he represented three other women who had been paid for their silence about alleged sex with Trump. Avenatti tweeted "All kinds of silent money paid," tweeted Tweet Avenatti.
Last week was the translation of a conversation between Trump and Cohen on a possible lump sum payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, Cohen had secretly recorded the conversation.
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