Discussing a pardon in exchange for being deceitful or outright lying (to investigators, prosecutors, Congress) is abuse of powers, obstruction of justice, and blatant corruption.
Doesn't matter if Trump says, "I refused his request for a pardon" because Trump and his legal people are already on record denying any pardon conversation occurred, now he says it did occur, that conversation means possible witness intimidation, possible blackmail, obstruction, etc, and clearly abusing Presidential powers.
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Cuthbert (732)
6 years ago
So Trump is saying that Cohen lied to Congress the first time he was questioned by them and that's what Trump is referring to? Does Cohen now admit asking for a pardon?
I'm looking into it. Someone else posted this reply to the tweet:
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If he asked for a pardon while working for you means he knew he was breaking the law for you and was worried about it. You have just admitted breaking the law. LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP.
I guess my confusion is on the timeline of when this pardon was supposedly asked for. Was he like: "OK Don, I'll do all of this illegal stuff you want me to do for you so long as you promise to pardon me if I'm ever caught."
Or was this pardon asked for after Cohen's offices had been sacked?
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[deleted]
6 years ago
Michael Cohen Has Email Showing Trump Obstructed Justice by Dangling Pardon.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/politics/michael-cohen-email-costello/index.html
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An attorney who said he was speaking with President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani reassured Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that Cohen could "sleep well tonight" because he had "friends in high places," according to a copy of an email obtained by CNN.
Two emails -- both dated April 21, 2018, and among documents provided to Congress by the President's former attorney and fixer -- do not specifically mention a pardon. Cohen, in his closed-door congressional testimony, has provided these emails in an effort to corroborate his claim that a pardon was dangled before he decided to cooperate with federal prosecutors, according to sources familiar with his testimony.
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[deleted]
6 years ago
The irony of emails possibly taking down a President who when a candidate exploited another candidate's emailgate to win the Presidency should not be lost. The Russian collusion is mostly about Russia obtaining Hillary's emails and coordinating with the Trump campaign. Trump's Best People both within and without his Administration are being investigated and indicted and imprisoned in large part because of their obsession with Hillary's emails and because of their own self-implicating emails.
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