Don goes nuts as feds tighten ties to elex mess
President Trump, implicated in a pair of felonies by federal prosecutors, unleashed an allcaps attack Saturday on special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.
Mueller said in court filings Friday that Trump's former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen has gone to “significant lengths” to aid the ongoing investigation and prosecutors made clear they believe the President directed his former fixer to make illegal payments to buy the silence of two women whose claims of extramarital affairs threatened his 2016 campaign.
“AFTER TWO YEARS AND MILLIONS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS (and a cost of over $30,000,000), NO COLLUSION,” Trump tweeted.
Later, while leaving the White House to attend the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, the President said he's “very happy with what we've been reading because there was no collusion whatsoever.”
He then admitted to reporters he hasn't personally read any of the court filings released a day earlier, but “based on what everyone is telling me, there's no collusion.”
In the filings, New York prosecutors concluded Cohen “acted in coordination with and at the direction of Individual-1,” an apparent reference to Trump that implicates him in campaign finance violation for payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with the former reality TV host.
Prosecutors recommend Cohen face “substantial” prison time after he pleaded guilty to financial crimes, campaign violations, and lying to Congress.
Mueller noted in a separate filing that Cohen told prosecutors about a previously unknown 2015 contact he had with a Russian national offering the Trump campaign “political synergy” and “synergy on a government level.” Cohen was working on a proposed Moscow Trump Tower project at the time.
Cohen also claims he spoke to Trump about the Kremlinconnected individual's suggestions that the then-candidate meet one-on-one with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer said there is “no question” that the filing “defines the President as a coconspirator in a felony.”
“At some point, people need to look at the facts objectively and forget who they voted for in 2016,” Cramer added. “The President tried to conceal the facts behind his relationships with these women and used Cohen as the bagman. This isn't very complicated.”
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani disagreed.
“Fake news coverage can't change the reality that Mueller's late Friday dump demonstrates yet again no evidence connected to President,” he tweeted, adding that no “responsible prosecutor would premise a criminal case on a questionable interpretation of the law.”