{"id":31544,"date":"2019-02-28T07:06:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31544"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T11:09:52","slug":"crime-watch-michael-cohen-lied-to-congress-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmicconvergence.org\/?p=31544","title":{"rendered":"CRIME WATCH: Michael Cohen Lied to Congress—AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Cohen\u2019s Disproven Testimony on February 27th<\/b><\/h1>\n
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Trump\u2019s former attorney Michael Cohen gave false testimony to Congress on Wednesday, February 27th, when he said that Trump had been phoned by Roger Stone in advance of the Wikileaks dump of Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails and that Stone at that time told Trump that Stone had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange who had just told Stone that there would soon be a big dump by Wikileaks of damaging files from Clinton.<\/div>\n
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On February 27th,\u00a0Cohen told Congress<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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Mr. Trump knew from Roger Stone in advance about the WikiLeaks drop of emails.<\/p><\/div>\n

In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump\u2019s office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign.<\/div>\n
Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of \u201cwouldn\u2019t that be great.\u201d<\/p>\n
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However, on that same day, both Wikileaks and Roger Stone said that this didn\u2019t happen. On February 27th,\u00a0The Hill<\/i>\u00a0headlined\u00a0“WikiLeaks disputes Cohen, says Assange never talked to Stone\u201d<\/a>, and Rachel Frazin reported that,<\/div>\n
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WikiLeaks contradicted Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony in a tweet Wednesday, saying that founder Julian Assange never spoke on the phone with Trump adviser Roger Stone.<\/p><\/div>\n

“WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has never had a telephone call with Roger Stone,” WikiLeaks tweeted. “WikiLeaks publicly teased its pending publications on Hillary Clinton and published > 30k of her emails on 16 March 2016.\u201d \u2026<\/div>\n
Stone also denied Cohen’s allegation in a text message to The Hill.<\/div>\n
\u201cMr. Cohen\u2019s statement is not true,\u201d Stone said. \u2026 Stone \u2026 said he has never had direct contact with WikiLeaks, but said he did have a back channel to the group.<\/p>\n
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Moreover, there\u2019s absolute proof that Wikileaks gave advance warning on 12 June 2016 \u2014 the month prior to the incident that Cohen recounted \u2014 because Britain\u2019s ITV had headlined on 12 June 2016\u00a0\u201cJulian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, said on Sunday that the journalist organisation is planning to release upcoming leaks in relation to US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0That report said, “Speaking to Peston on Sunday, Mr Assange said Wikileaks has further information relating to claims circulating since 2015 that Clinton had in the past used her family’s private email server for official communications.\u201d<\/div>\n
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If Mr. Stone had seen or heard about that Assange interview in June of 2016, he could have known even prior to July 2016 that Wikileaks was soon going to release things from Clinton\u2019s personal computer.<\/div>\n
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Regarding the truthfulness track-record of Roger Stone, it is not flawless, but regarding the truthfulness track-record of Wikileaks, it is flawless, and Wikileaks said on February 27th that \u201cfounder Julian Assange never spoke on the phone with Trump adviser Roger Stone.\u201d<\/div>\n
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Of course, regarding the truthfulness track-record of Michael Cohen, it\u2019s infamous, and that\u2019s the reason why he was sentenced to prison.<\/div>\n
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0\u00a0They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/a>,<\/i>\u00a0and of\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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