Trump Jr.'s 2017 Testimony Conflicts With Cohen's Account Of Russian Talks

[demmiblue]

Source: NPR

Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony to Congress about his family's real estate negotiations with powerful Russians does not comport with the new version laid out by Donald Trump's ex-attorney Michael Cohen, official transcripts show.

Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that although there had been negotiations surrounding a prospective Trump Tower in Moscow, they concluded without result "at the end" of 2014.

"But not in 2015 or 2016?" Trump Jr. was asked.

"Certainly not '16," he said. "There was never a definitive end to it. It just died of deal fatigue."

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. When Lying Is Your Business Model. . .

. . .then it becomes so natural that one forgets that there are levels after which lying has dire consequences.

Junior is about to find out what those consequences are. The lies are a matter of public record. There is no defense of "i didn't say that" for him.

[AndJusticeForSome]

2. It seemed he was discussing a different event

That question specifically talked about Agalarov's efforts to broker a deal for the tower.

The Sater/Cohen effort was 2015/16.

(pg 176 of Jr's testimony)

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[Corgigal]

3. Sounds good,

why not pick him up exactly when his father meets his boss. Good times.

[laserhaas]

4. Duh! - No Shit! - Really?? - Who would've thunk?

Pshaw!

[NCjack]

5. Time to hear from the accountant for the Trump Crime Syndicate. nt

[RockRaven]

6. Womp womp... it sure sounds like Cohen kept the receipts

and now Mueller has them. Butt-Head should be worried.

[displacedtexan]

8. Cohen recorded hundreds of phone calls.

That's how Mueller knows who lied and when they lied.

[Apollyonus]

7. Lock him up!!!!

[demmiblue]

9. UPDATED:

Updated at 4 p.m. ET

Editor's note: An earlier version of this report mischaracterized an answer Donald Trump Jr. gave to Senate investigators in 2017 about the prospective projects his family was negotiating with people in Moscow.

The story reported that Trump Jr.'s response — that negotiations on one project concluded by the end of 2014 — contrasted with the version of events as laid out in the guilty plea by Michael Cohen on Thursday. In fact, Trump Jr. and investigators were alluding to a different set of negotiations — not to a deal that Cohen was reportedly pursuing. Trump Jr. did acknowledge in his testimony that Cohen and another man were exploring a possible deal in Moscow in 2015 or 2016.

Trump Jr. did not address what Cohen has now admitted — that talks about such a deal continued at least into June 2016, longer than previously known and well into the presidential campaign.

[denbot]

10. There is a leak from Mueller most junior assistant!

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