President Trump on Friday slammed his longtime lawyer’s claim that he knew about a Trump Tower meeting during the campaign between his son Donald Trump Jr. and a Kremlin-associated lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton.
“I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr,” the president wrote on Twitter early Friday. “Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?).”
…..I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, a target in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, accused the then-presidential candidate of having advance notice of the infamous June, 2016 meeting, CNN reported. He is reportedly willing to make that claim to Mueller’s investigators.
Trump’s mention of taxi cabs refers to a federal investigation into Cohen’s business affairs, including his owning New York City taxicab medallions.
Cohen has distanced himself from his former client of over a decade since coming under scrutiny for claims that he paid off women who had affairs with Trump to defuse negative stories about the candidate during the campaign.
This week, the press got hold of a tape Cohen made of a conversation he had with Trump regarding buying the rights to a Playboy model’s story about an affair she says she had with the Republican candidate.
The president also mocked Cohen’s retaining attorney Lanny Davis, former special counsel to President Bill Clinton, asking whether the Clinton’s recommended him.
Also in his string of tweets Friday morning, Trump ripped Mueller’s team after a New York Times report that they are going through his tweets and other actions to determine whether he tried to suppress the investigation into his campaign’s ties with Russia by pressuring senior law enforcement officials, including fired FBI director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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