CTH: After the Michael Cohen guilty plea. his attorney Lanny Davis began pitching a claim that the longtime Trump loyalist/lawyer had information Trump knew of the Russian hacking of Democratic emails ahead of time.
Davis said: “I believe that Mr. Cohen has direct knowledge that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller that suggests -I’m not sure it proves- that Mr. Trump was aware of Russian government agents hacking illegally, committing computer crimes, to the detriment of the candidate who he was running against, Hillary Clinton.” And the media ate it up, and put Davis on just about every possible TV show imaginable.
However, in an interview with the Washington Post this weekend, Mr Davis not only walked back that claim, he entirely retreated from it:
(Via Washington Post) An attorney for Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, is backing away from confident assertions he made that Cohen has information to share with investigators that shows Trump knew in 2016 of Russian efforts to undermine Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Lanny Davis, a spokesman and attorney for Cohen, said in an interview this weekend that he is no longer certain about claims he made to reporters on background and on the record in recent weeks about what Cohen knows about Trump’s awareness of the Russian efforts.
[…] asked Saturday how confident he was that Trump knew about the hacking before it became public, Davis said: “I am not sure. There’s a possibility that is the case. But I am not sure.” […] “I was giving an instinct that he might have something to say of interest to the special counsel” about hacking, Davis said. In retrospect, he said, “I am just not sure.” (more)
This follows on the heels of Mr. Davis also walking back his prior claim that candidate Trump knew of the Trump Tower meeting. During a CNN interview Lanny Davis told Anderson Cooper, per his client, candidate Donald Trump had no knowledge of the Trump Tower meeting between Don Jr. and Natalia Veselnitskaya.
And Davis has also stated that all of the claims within the Clinton-Steele dossier about Michael Cohen are also 100% false. “Thirteen references to Mr. Cohen are false in the dossier, and he has never been to Prague in his life,” Davis told Bloomberg news.
So, there we have it. Lanny Davis is saying the dossier is false; Trump never knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russian lobbyists; and his client, Michael Cohen, has no knowledge of anything to do with Donald Trump and Russians.
:::poof::: …gone. Just like that!
Snake.
It doesn’t matter. The template has been made.
Make a charge against Trump, provide no evidence, leak it to the media, the media pushes it as fact. After a week retract the charge, and the media never reports on the retraction, instead the media doubles down on the lie and buries the retraction.
How is the media not the enemy of the people?
#enemedia
Enemedia.
Cohen needs to sue Lanny Davis for impersonating a defense lawyer.
THIS
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1033896801357549568.html
explains the significance.
…and, tangentially related, this
https://www.reddit.com/r/greatawakening/comments/994whi/deepstate_wives_repost/
gives a bit of background on some players who haven’t (yet?) gotten the coverage they “deserve.”
Davis is a hack stooge of the first order.
Damage is done. Saw a social media meme just put up of a whole bunch of people with their heads in the sand, entitled “Trump Supporters”. Saw some crackpot on a twitter thread post Pence was now being investigated by Mueller for knowing about what Lanny Davis first lied about.
Any other non-western country in the world, everybody involved in a plot like this would have already been lined up and shot en masse.
RW, and shooting them
A) is done in the 3rd World,
B) creates MARTYRS.
Your “outrage!”-O-Meter matches Antifa’s.
“It doesn’t matter. The template has been made.”
It is now part of the permanent record that Trump Had A Very Bad Week. They’ll be pointing back to this Very Bad Week on the night before the midterms, telling us that it was the pivotal moment when his and the GOP’s doom were sealed. Never mind that everything they hit him with will be utterly debunked by then. And all of the lofos who missed the corrections and retractions will be wondering why Trump didn’t resign, and why they have fewer House and Senate seats than they did before the midterms. You lefty lofos could avoid the shock and pain if you kept up with current events.
Daavis’s ploy worked to drum up hundreds of thousands of dollars for Cohen’s GoFundMe effort. Free money. Hate Trump, get paid. It’s fraud.
3rdTwin, that sounds like the title of a Judith Viorst kids’ book, “Trump Had a Very Bad Week.” The adult lofos would make it a best seller.
Czar – Yes, hence why I said “any other non-western country in the world”
Manipulation of the American people with a disinformation campaign right outta Soviet Russia.
Thars yer “Russian Collusion” right there in front of us every day!!
All the “News” fit for a Third World Shit Hole!
@Czar…
From your Wictor link: “And now Rosenstein has the goods on them…”
Wasn’t there a big expose of Rosenstein’s wife, Lisa Barsoomian, last week? About how she was a protege of Comey and Mueller, lawyered for Clinton in ’98 and how she’s a pretty nasty piece of deep state work? What do you think will happen to those “goods” Rosenstein has on SDNY? I’m thinking not very much at all.
It makes more sense to me to believe that if Deeper Strzok is paired with Deeper Hodgson, and Deeper Bruce is paired with Deeper Nellie, then Deeper Rosenstein is paired with Deeper Barsoomian.
And one more thing, Czar…If Strzok was cheating on Hodgson with Page, then who was Hodgson’s side piece? You just know she had one. Probably Henry Kerner.
“Probably Henry Kerner”
I’d say Christopher Wray.
Why not? They’re just a box of humping rodents.
TO 3rdT
SEE 2nd LINK; it’s a abbreviated version of the reddit article you refer to (but with more guilty parties mentioned).
I know what you mean about spouses involvement and protecting, etc., but then one has to believe that Trump is powerless over Sessions and Rosenstein, which I see as less likely…than:
Sessions working with Trump (as he has from the beginning) and Rosenstein “cooperating” (in a similar manner to Lisa Page), having been “caught”:
FROM (17) & (18) AT THE 1st LINK:
“Rosenstein successfully defied his corrupt bosses, to the point that Obama had to intervene and issue pardons. Guess what Rosenstein made his bones doing? Putting away government officials. So this is why Sessions recused himself. Rosenstein is the expert. Sessions was freed up to do other things.”
So he’s a nuanced fucking liar. In other words he’s a lawyer.