LANNY DAVIS BLOWS UP KEY 'DOSSIER'
CLAIM. Document charged client Cohen was central to 'Trump-Russia
collusion', by Art Moore, 8/23/18, WND
Longtime Clinton attorney Lanny Davis,
now representing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, said Cohen has never
been to Prague, as claimed in the “dossier” of unverified political dirt on
Trump funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National
Committee.
“Thirteen references to Mr. Cohen are false in
the dossier, but he has never been to Prague in his life,” Davis said Wednesday
in an interview on Bloomberg TV noted by the Daily Caller.
Significantly, the 35-page dossier – the
basis for the Obama administration obtaining a warrant to spy on the Trump
campaign – claimed Cohen was a central figure in a “clandestine” conspiracy of
collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Cohen, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to tax
evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations, has turned against his
former client, claiming Trump directed him to pay off two women who say they
had affairs with the billionaire realtor in 2006.
The dossier, compiled by former British
spy Christopher Steele from anonymous Russian sources, states Cohen and three
associates visited Prague to meet with Kremlin officials.
The objective of the visit, Steele
wrote, was to pay hackers to obtain dirt on former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, the Democratic Party presidential nominee in 2016.
“The agenda comprised questions on how
deniable cash payments were to be made to hackers who had worked in Europe
under Kremlin direction against the CLINTON campaign and various contingencies
for covering up these operations and Moscow’s secret liaison with the TRUMP
team more generally,” the dossier stated.
Cohen also claimed in a June 28 tweet
the dossier “misreports 15 allegations about me.” “I had nothing to do with
Russian collusion or meddling!” he declared.
In the interview with Bloomberg on Wednesday, Davis commented
further regarding the dossier’s claim that Cohen visited Prague.
“By the way, the number of time that
falsehood has been repeated – I’m not accusing you – is the classic example
that if you mention something a million times, and you get Google hits and
they’re all false, it’s zero-zero,” he said.
In interviews this week, Davis has
stirred Washington with claims that Cohen has information of interest to special counsel Robert
Mueller’s collusion probe. He has suggested President Trump had prior knowledge
of the hacking of Democratic National Committee computers, allegedly by Russian
intelligence officers.
“I believe that Mr. Cohen would be able to provide
information useful to the special
counsel,” he said in an interview with CNN. “I won’t call it a smoking gun information, someone else will have to judge
that. I believe that he does relevant information.”
Davis also called Cohen’s payment of the
two women a “criminal act.” But legal experts such as Alan Dershowitz argue
campaign-finance law requires that intent be proved, and reasons for making the
payments apart from the election can be cited.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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