But the hearing heightened focus on House suspicions that Trump had lied to Mueller’s investigators when he provided lawyerly, written answers to some questions. In his responses, which were appended to the Mueller report, Trump denied that he was aware of any communications between his campaign and WikiLeaks. Several Trump aides, including Michael Cohen and Rick Gates, testified that they heard Trump discussing coming WikiLeaks releases over the phone. The Mueller report cited additional evidence from Gates that Trump did have discussions about the content or timing of the future release of hacked emails. For example, Gates also told investigators that about that same time, he was with Trump in a car trip to an airport when Trump received a call.

Source: bd News24 November 18, 2019 22:07 UTC