A new report from CNN claims that President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller this month that he was never informed about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian agents, while also claiming that ally Roger Stone never talked with him about upcoming WikiLeaks releases.
According to CNN, Trump told Mueller in written testimony that "Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton."
Trump's reported decision to issue blanket denials on both questions, if accurate, could quickly come back to hurt him because Democrats will soon gain subpoena power in the House of Representatives.
Incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said this week that one of the first things his committee might do is to unmask the blocked cell phone number that Donald Trump Jr. called while he was in the midst of coordinating a meeting with Russian operatives.
The blocked number is significant because President Donald Trump himself also uses a blocked number to communicate with people. If it turns out that Trump Jr. called his father while he was arranging meetings with Russian officials, it could mean that he lied under oath when he told Congress that he never mentioned the meetings with his father.
It would now also mean that Trump lied under oath in written answers to Mueller's investigation.
Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, writes on Twitter that Trump may have put himself in grave legal peril if Mueller has evidence to contradict his sworn testimony.
"Trump drew a line in the sand," he wrote. "He had better hope Mueller doesn't have something that contradicts these denials or that's all she wrote."
