Michael Cohen's lawyers change story on election
Recently around 4:15 p.m. Michael Cohen's lawyer changed the story again on what Trump did and didn't know about the election with the Russians. Lanny Davis offered many variations to the story but has now second guess Cohen's claims. He states that "I should have done a much better job of speaking with more suspicion than certainty, and I regret my mistake," Davis told CNN. This shows that he is trying to cover something up or that he knew something prior and should not have said what he said. Cohen also claims that he was there when Trump Jr. told President Trump about the Russians' offering to share dirt on Clinton which Trump gave the approval on. A spokes woman from CNN said on Tuesday that "we stand by our story, which had more than one source, and we are confident in our reporting of it." This shows that CNN believes full in the story and are not planning on changing there mind which is bad for Trump. Further ore CNN is saying Cohen didn't have information backing up his claim. Last week Cohen also pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts in Manhattan federal court, fraud, false statements to a bank and campaign finance all back to Trumps work. Something interesting though is after Cohen's plea Davis started changing his story as I feel is to match Cohen. Although Trump did tweeted on Saturday changing the story saying he 'did not know about the meeting." So Trump is either lying or trying to stay away from trouble because he may be impeached but also so he doesn't get hurt for the next election. According to the New York post Davis said he "was not aware of the meeting..." this just shows that he is clearly lying and id trying to stop this. Off of this since Davis is a longtime Clinton confident others think that maybe he is trying to help her out and working more than one side to this.
Sources used:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/politics/lanny-davis-trump-tower-michael-cohen/index.html
https://nypost.com/2018/08/23/how-long-before-cohens-lawyer-changes-his-story-again/
Discussion questions:
Should Trump be impeached for this?
Do you think Davis is really trying to help Clinton?
What will happen to Trumps lawyer?
Will this affect Trump in the next election?
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