The special counsel did not allege that Stone spoke to Assange or that he gave Trump advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ plans. He alleged Trump even once called him and handed the phone to first lady Melania Trump so that Cohen would deny the allegations. Cohen said, notably, that Trump did not tell him to lie to Congress about a possible Trump Tower project in Moscow that Cohen pursued into the heart of the campaign. This stuff has to end.”Sekulow, Cohen alleged, was involved in editing what would turn out to be Cohen’s false congressional testimony — though his precise role was not immediately clear. (Cohen told The Post in January 2017 that he had been to Prague once — around 2002, when he drove through the city but did not stop.)

Source: Washington Post February 27, 2019 22:47 UTC