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US President Donald Trump has accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of lying \u201ca lot\u201d during his contentious Capitol Hill testimony, except for saying there was no collusion with so-called \u201cRussian hoax.\u201d<\/p>\n
At a press briefing in Vietnam, a journalist asked the president what he made of Cohen’s statements that Trump was a \u201cliar,\u201d<\/em> a \u201ccon-man\u201d<\/em> and a \u201cracist.\u201d<\/em> Trump opted to skim by those claims and mostly focused on the collusion allegations.<\/p>\n \u201cHe lied a lot, but it was very interesting because he didn’t lie about one thing. He said \u2018no collusion\u2019 with the Russian hoax,\u201d<\/em> the US President said. \u201cAnd I said, ‘I wonder why he didn’t just lie about that too like he did about everything else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trump noted collusion was the most important question asked during Wednesday’s hearing. He slammed the hearing as “fake”<\/em> and \u201cshameful,\u201d<\/em> and said it was a \u201cterrible thing\u201d<\/em> for Democrats to hold it during his summit with Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n \u201cI wouldn’t use the word \u2018colluding.\u2019 Was there something odd about the back-and-forth praise with President Putin?\u201d<\/em> Cohen said. \u201cYes, but I’m not really sure I can answer that question in terms of collusion,\u201d<\/em> he admitted.<\/p>\n \u201cI was actually impressed that he didn\u2019t say \u2018well, I think there was collusion\u2019,\u201d<\/em> Trump commented, habitually branding the testimony \u201cthe witch hunt\u201d<\/em> that \u201cshould never happen to another president.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The seven-hour Cohen testimony took place on Wednesday, with the lawyer claiming, among other things, that the president directed him to lie about a Trump Tower project in Moscow during his election campaign, and that he knew that there would be a leak of emails damaging to Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign. He also accused Trump of financial manipulations that may carry criminal charges.<\/p>\n Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" US President Donald Trump has accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of lying \u201ca lot\u201d during his contentious Capitol Hill testimony, except for saying there was no collusion with so-called \u201cRussian hoax.\u201d At a press briefing in Vietnam, a journalist asked the president what he made of Cohen’s statements that Trump was a \u201cliar,\u201d a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-397610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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