REVEALED: Cohen Begged Trump for A Pardon After Home Was Raided By FBI (Details)
After his home was raided by the FBI, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s legal team asked President Trump for a pardon.
It didn’t happen.
Cohen then flipped on his ex-boss.
From New York Post:
Michael Cohen’s lawyer talked about a potential pardon with attorneys for President Trump last spring — and now the discussions are part of a sweeping investigation by House Democrats, according to a report Tuesday.
Attorneys for both sides met weeks after the FBI raided Cohen’s home, office and hotel room in April 2018 as part of its probe into campaign finance crimes, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Their conversations are now among the hoard of documents requested Monday by the House Judiciary Committee in its probe into the president and his associates. They’re demanding records from more than 80 people and businesses related to Trump.
45 says he has evidence that Cohen perjured himself before Congress.
Trump sent the following tweets:
Virtually everything failed lawyer Michael Cohen said in his sworn testimony last week is totally contradicted in his just released manuscript for a book about me. It’s a total new love letter to “Trump” and the pols must now use it rather than his lies for sentence reduction!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1102002565116542976?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1102002565116542976&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalistpapers.org%2Fopinion%2Fpresident-trump-says-evidence-cohen-perjured-congress
The brand new manuscript for a new book by failed lawyer Michael Cohen shows his testimony was a total lie! Pundits should only use it.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1102004371225751557?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1102004371225751557&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalistpapers.org%2Fopinion%2Fpresident-trump-says-evidence-cohen-perjured-congress
Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago. Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101469141213630464?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101469141213630464&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalistpapers.org%2Fopinion%2Fpresident-trump-says-evidence-cohen-perjured-congress
Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, “gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done. Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen…..
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101472084730003457?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101472084730003457&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalistpapers.org%2Fopinion%2Fpresident-trump-says-evidence-cohen-perjured-congress
…and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday. No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed. Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1101473899357880321?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101473899357880321&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthefederalistpapers.org%2Fopinion%2Fpresident-trump-says-evidence-cohen-perjured-congress
Why would Cohen seemingly come from out of nowhere to blindside the president?
Lynne Patton, who works under Ben Carson at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, knows the answer.
In short, it involved a lengthy prison sentence – but not for Cohen.
Patton wrote in a Facebook post:
What many of you may not be aware of is the fact that I can personally confirm that the ONLY reason Michael Cohen “turned on” the President of the United States is because Mueller threatened to throw his wife in jail for up to 30 years. Period. She is the co-guarantor of a $20M personal loan that Mueller discovered Michael secured back in 2015 by falsely inflating the value of his taxi medallions – effectively making her part & parcel to the federal charge of “Making False Statements to a Financial Institution,” to which Cohen ultimately plead guilty. This is also the reason why Cohen’s longtime taxi medallion partner, Evgeny “Gene” Freidman, was granted immunity.
https://twitter.com/dmartosko/status/1101496080066363392?%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1101496080066363392&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftherightscoop.com%2Frumor-michael-cohen-turned-on-trump-because-mueller-threatened-to-send-his-wife-to-jail-for-30-years%2F
So, Patton says Cohen flipped after his wife was threatened with three decades in the pokey.
North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows noted that he has “nieces and nephews who are people of color.”
Of course, his words came after freshman Democrat Rep Rashida Tlaib (MI) implied that Meadows was racist for bringing a black woman to speak fondly of President Trump to Michael Cohen’s hearing.
Meadows was royally ticked off, as you might imagine.
WATCH:
The black woman to whom Tlaib is referring is Lynne Patton, a senior official at Housing and Urban Development who works under Ben Carson.
Scooplet: Longtime Trump aide Lynne Patton (who now serves as a HUD official) is attending hearing as a guest of Rep. Mark Meadows. Sources say Patton will sit behind Meadows during hearing. Patton, who is black, may do press to push back against testimony that Trump is racist
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 27, 2019
2. Have talked to several members and they've never seen an admin official sit behind a member of congress during a hearing! As @maggieNYT pointed out, Patton was brought into Trump world by Cohen. This is clearly intended as a reminder for Cohen, Meadows is Trump's top ally.
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 27, 2019
3. Patton is now sitting behind Meadows as was planned. pic.twitter.com/Bqhqv6BxQ6
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) February 27, 2019
I am honored to be the special guest of @RepMarkMeadows today. I am here in support of @POTUS and in support of the truth, as Michael Cohen (knows that I know) it to be. And the truth is that it doesn’t take you 15 years to call someone a racist. Unless they’re not one. pic.twitter.com/jPxeYTbTYT
— 🇺🇸 Lynne Patton (@LynnePatton) February 27, 2019