As details trickle out about Michael Cohen's guilty plea that he misled Congress about contacts with the Russians, one CNN reporter covering Cohen's court appearance said Trump's attorney just became Trump's "most dangerous" accuser.
According to early reports, Cohen pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress during past testimony, and he will provide “dozens of hours of testimony” that is “potentially damaging” to the president.
Detailing what was learned from inside the courthouse CNN's Pamela Brown checked off what Cohen reportedly revealed.
"In these documents, Donald Trump appears to be 'individual one,'" Brown explained. "And it says that Cohen discussed it multiple times with 'individual one' on more than the three occasions than he had claimed previously. As you will recall, he previously said he only talked to Donald Trump three times and it was just for a few minutes. Well now, according to these court documents, that wasn't the case. There were many more discussions and that he briefed family members of individual one, as we believe to be Donald Trump."
"This is all happening when Donald Trump was running for president," she reminded the CNN panel. "So clearly Michael Cohen, according to these court documents and according to what he told a federal judge, had misled Congress so that it didn't look bad for Donald Trump at the time that this [business] deal was ongoing while he was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee."
"But now we're finding out that Donald Trump was briefed about this project while he was the Republican nominee and his family members were briefed and now we're finding out about a discussion for Donald Trump to go to Russia," she continued. "It also puts more of Donald Trump's comments when he talks favorably about Vladimir Putin."
"What's really fascinating about this is the fact that now Michael Cohen could be the most dangerous witness to the president and the presidency in this Russia probe, "she concluded.
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