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| “I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from President Trump.” |
Well not according to statements previously made by his attorney.
“During that time period, he directed his attorney to explore possibilities of a pardon at one point with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as other lawyers advising President Trump,” Mr. Davis said. He referred to the discussions with the president’s lawyers as the “ongoing ‘dangling’ of a possible pardon by Trump representatives privately and in the media.”However, in this remarkable amount of semantic gymnastics, Davis tries to walk this back?
“After July 2, 2018, Mr. Cohen authorized me as a new lawyer to say publicly Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from President Trump even if offered. That continues to be the case,” Mr. Davis said Wednesday. “His statement at the Oversight Hearing was true—and consistent with his post-joint defense agreement commitment to tell the truth.”It possibly would have been consistent with the truth if Cohen was asked if he were "currently" looking for a Pardon. But he was asked if he ever "had" looked into a Pardon. The fact that he had quite obviously had a change of heart in terms of a possible pardon doesn't allow one to rewrite history here.
More to the point, your current political or legal "position" as determined by your attorney does not replace the truth in terms of how you testify. You cannot get together with your attorney and change the truth, so that you are able to lie under oath and not be punished. Under oath still means telling the real truth.
Perhaps Cohen found the one attorney in America dumber than he is?
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So its not lying as he defines it. Thanks for the template bubba.
This was added to the perjury referral.
Not exactly.
Cohen lied to the House Oversight Committee, right?
Not exactly, according to Davis, whom Cohen hired last summer after Ryan and Trump’s lawyers finished reviewing the files seized by the FBI to determine which of them were protected under attorney-client privilege. “After July 2, 2018, Mr. Cohen authorized me as a new lawyer to say publicly Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from President Trump even if offered,” Davis told the WSJ. “That continues to be the case. His statement at the Oversight Hearing was true — and consistent with his post-joint defense agreement commitment to tell the truth.”
The issue gets to the heart of the bizarre before-and-after contrast of the period when Cohen said he’d “take a bullet” for Trump and the period after it became clear the president wasn’t going to bail him out of legal jeopardy. Following his testimony last week, Trump tried to blur this line by citing Cohen’s early-2018 proposal to write a pro-Trump book as proof his comments disparaging the president before Congress were untruthful. Cohen’s testimony, however, included an admission that he lied for Trump repeatedly, and such a book proposal would have been consistent with his behavior during this period.
You are again you "have" rewritten history.
Trump tried to blur this line by citing Cohen’s early-2018 proposal to write a pro-Trump book as proof his comments disparaging the president before Congress were untruthful.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-pardon-michael-cohen-804533/
rolling stone?
really?
it's ironic that a publication that has pissed away it's very last shred of credibility would run a byline like this -
The credibility of the president’s former fixer has been called into question once again
good one, alky.
LOL.
maybe cohen's last lawyer's name was "haven monahan."
Roger
None of that has anything to do with the story. Which was about a pardon.
Was your story about a pardon?
Nope. It was about something completely unrelated.
Doh! Are you not paying attention, or simply incapable of lucid thought process anymore?
Just curious.
but here... try to follow.
Cohen at one time had his attorney solicit a possible pardon from Trump.
Then he changed attorneys and decided that he was no longer going to pursue a pardon.
When asked during his hearing if he had "ever" solicited a pardon he said no, and his attorney suggested that it was in line with his "new" version of the narrative.
Except under oath means you tell the truth, not provide your version of the narrative.
March 5, 2019, 1:44 PM EST
By "Fusion" Ken Dilanian
A lawyer for Michael Cohen first broached the idea of a pardon with President Donald Trump's legal team, two people familiar with the matter tell NBC News, and the ensuing pardon discussions are now under examination by House and Senate intelligence committees.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, first mentioned the idea of a pardon with the Trump legal team in the weeks after the April raid on Cohen’s home and office, and that the president’s lawyers, including Jay Sekulow, Rudy Giuliani and Joanna Hendon, dismissed the idea. But at least one of them, Giuliani, left open the possibility that the president could grant Cohen one in the future, the Journal reported.
NBC News spoke to three people, one of whom is familiar with what Cohen told the House and Senate intelligence committees, one of whom is familiar with Cohen’s account, and one of whom is familiar with the account of Trump’s legal team.
None of them disputed the Journal reporting. The sources familiar with Cohen's closed-door congressional testimony say there was more than one discussion about pardons, and that regardless of who initiated it, Congress is examining the question of whether the White House used the promise of a pardon to induce Cohen to continue his false story. The person close to Cohen said he was part of a joint defense agreement at the time and that he certainly would have accepted a pardon.
It’s not clear how serious the discussions were. No pardon was forthcoming, and Cohen eventually broke with Trump and said publicly he would not accept a pardon if offered.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/michael-cohen-s-lawyer-was-first-bring-pardon-trump-attorneys-n979576
well alky, NBC's crackpot, err, crackerjack reporter "fusion ken" dilanian is calling you and rolling stone (LOL) a liar.
what say you?
c'mon now, this is NBC, complete with the anonymous sources you've grown so fond of since Trump's election.
Doh! Are you not paying attention, or simply incapable of lucid thought process anymore?
you'll know he's in trouble when he starts copy/pasting the "roommate wanted" classifieds from the LA Times.
I still don't understand why you stand behind Trump.
Kelly rebuked one of the president’s constant refrains about undocumented immigrants: That migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally are dangerous criminals and pose a serious threat.
Rep. John Larson talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
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“They’re overwhelmingly not criminals,” Kelly said Wednesday. “They’re people coming up here for economic purposes. I don’t blame them for that.”
He also reiterated his position that a border wall spanning the entire U.S.-Mexico border would be a “waste of money,” despite overseeing the beginning of what would become the longest government shutdown in U.S. history over Trump’s demand that Congress fund the wall.
Though there are areas where a border wall would be effective, Kelly said, “We don’t need a wall from sea to shining sea.” The president himself has shifted on the specifics of his border wall, including its proposed length.
The retired general also defended NATO, which Trump has repeatedly maligned as having a cost to the U.S. that outweighs its benefits.
I agree with a four star general over the pathological liar you love.
It's not about a pardon?????
During that time period, he directed his attorney to explore possibilities of a pardon at one point with Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as well as other lawyers advising President Trump,” Mr. Davis said. He referred to the discussions with the president’s lawyers as the “ongoing ‘dangling’ of a possible pardon by Trump representatives privately and in the media.”
However, in this remarkable amount of semantic gymnastics, Davis tries to walk this back?
“After July 2, 2018, Mr. Cohen authorized me as a new lawyer to say publicly Mr. Cohen would never accept a pardon from President Trump even if offered. That continues to be the case,” Mr. Davis said Wednesday. “His statement at the Oversight Hearing was true—and consistent with his post-joint defense agreement commitment to tell the truth.”
My story Roger...
Was about the Pardon.
Your reply had zero to do with the Pardon.
So not sure why you posted it or why you believe it actually does anything to contradict my post.
Are you just confused again, Rog?
you'll know he's in trouble when he starts copy/pasting the "roommate wanted" classifieds from the LA Times.
See Rog...
All the comments on a blog post regarding Cohen lying about wanting a pardon, should be about Cohen lying about wanting a pardon.
Pretty simple concept.
You cannot reput a blog post by posting things completely irrelevant to it.
Roger is learning the divorce laws of California are very pro-woman.
Since she is the sole owner, he has zero claim to it.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
It's not about a pardon?????
your rolling stone gibberish was not about a pardon, alky.
I still don't understand why you stand behind Trump.
well genius, i can only speak for myself, but it's like this -
i'm a big fan of just letting the facts - once referred to as stubborn things - speak for themselves. i like our GDP on the rise. i like unemployment on the decline. i like minorities having more opportunity today than in the entire span of my time on this earth. i like secure borders. i like the looks of my portfolio.
so far, practically since the day trump announced his candidacy, you've been focused on nonsense fueled exclusively by your TDS. "we're up to 9,000 trump lies, trump lied about inaugural crowd size, trump lied about illegal beaners voting in california, blah, blah, blah." and your party - the JOO-hating democrats - have nothing factual with which to facilitate a removal of this president.
when you're not picking nits on his rhetoric, you're rooting for failure in the NK negotiations and you're siding with the house hamas caucus against America.
look at yourself. if you hadn't let trump drive you mad mail order might still be around and you wouldn't be "newly single."
get a grip, son. and stop trying to change the fucking subject.
when the day comes that I use NBC to call out your bullshit sourced from rolling fucking stone you know you're in trouble.
KD said...
Roger is learning the divorce laws of California are very pro-woman.
Since she is the sole owner, he has zero claim to it.
he had better hope that the homeless encampment in anaheim has wi-fi.
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hey alky, would you please tell this stupid fucking twat that my internet is working fine?
thanks alky.
She will save the net...for everyone but the jews
ha! good one, myballs.
everyone gets internet except those dirty fucking JOOS...
"i can only speak for myself, but it's like this -
i'm a big fan of just letting the facts - once referred to as stubborn things - speak for themselves. i like our GDP on the rise. i like unemployment on the decline. i like minorities having more opportunity today than in the entire span of my time on this earth. i like secure borders. i like the looks of my portfolio. "
You speak for Millions.
2.8 million off of Food stamps (USDA).
I like that my land is not under track like it was during the Lost Years.
11 years, 10 months and 29 days to the end of the earth as we know it.
Darn we need a count-down ozone Cortez clock.
So when do we learn that the DOJ is looking into Nadler's shady finances?
Congressional investigators are making plans to set a brand new shiny perjury trap for Donald Trump Jr. and to have him return to Capitol Hill, in part, to ask why he told lawmakers under oath that he knew "very little" about a deal with Russian developers in 2016 to put the Trump brand on a skyscraper in Moscow, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/congress-questions-donald-trump-jr-moscow-tower-testimony-092603940--abc-news-topstories.html
a preview, starring jerry "golden corral" nadler:
"now mr. trump... why did you tell us you knew 'very little' about your father's efforts to build a tower in moscow, hmmmmmm?"
"and did you mean 'very little' or 'just a little'?"
"perhaps you meant to say 'just a little bit' eh mr. trump?"
"WHY ARE YOU LYING MR. TRUMP??? WHY MR. TRUMP, WHY???"
"MR. TRUMP, DO YOU KNOW THE PENALTY FOR LYING TO CONGRESS???"
"WELL DO YOU, MR. TRUMP???"
Did pro-tem Speaker Ozone Cortez really rally against Palsi Polosi to kill the sanction against the anti-Semitism of her fellow traveler?
If, true, that is a public rebuke of nanci.
pro-tem Speaker Ozone Cortez
and just how chapped do you think palsi pelosi's ass is right about now as she comes to the realization that she's speaker in name only?
Nancy, enough of playing on the fringes.
Where is my mother fucking tax cut?
speaker in name only?"
Highly,you called it early about ozone Cortez . Unlike homeless shelter Alky, you are often correct in your predictions.
thanks KD but don't give me any credit. predicting AOC to become de facto speaker was like predicting the sun rising in the east.
when you have a moron wishing people a happy thanksgiving on valentine's day, and having a mini-stroke every time she opens her pie hole, someone has to step up.
BREAKING NEWS!!!
HO LEE FARKING SHEET!!!
REALLY HAVE HIM THIS TIME!!!
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BOMBSHELL!!!
The cutting and disposal of a dozen mature trees into the Potomac River nearly two weeks ago at the Trump National Golf Course violated Loudoun County’s zoning ordinance, the county said, and could cost the organization at least $600.
The downed trees were spotted Feb. 23 by Steven McKone, director of the Calleva River School, as he kayaked the river. Subsequent paddlers and boaters saw about a dozen stumps 14 to 24 inches in width, and large tree trunks in the Potomac.
The removal of the trees from a flood plain along the river requires a permit, which the golf course did not obtain, county officials said in a news release Wednesday, and violates three sections of the zoning code.
The county ordered the golf course to stop all activity in the flood plain until it obtains the necessary permits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/loudoun-county-fines-trump-golf-course-for-cutting-trees-in-potomac-floodplain/2019/03/06/17345190-405c-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.90beb3bfd953
it's over. impeach the motherfucker.
when you have a moron wishing people a happy thanksgiving on valentine's day, and having a mini-stroke every time she opens her pie hole, someone has to step up.
And stepped up she did. You hardly know the diffrence.
it's over. impeach the motherfucker.
Fat Jerry needs a special consul for horticultural crimes.
@paulsperry_
Now that even some MSM acknowledging there never was a "collusion" scandal, when will MSM start investigating the real scandal of Obama DOJ/FBI & Clinton campaign making it look like there was? Oh that's right, the MSM were accomplices in that scandal. Never mind.
The lawyer for Cohen reached out to lawyers for the President to seek a pardon.
Giuliani admitted that this happened
Manafort managed to get 47 months.
Fair sentence for him.
The lawyer for Cohen reached out to lawyers for the President to seek a pardon.
The point is, Cohen lied to Congress again when he said he never asked for a pardon.
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