· 45th President of the United States. WASHINGTON (AP) — Assailed by his ex-lawyer at every turn, President Donald Trump nevertheless claimed a measure of vindication from Michael Cohen's statement...
 · Cohen did not clear his former boss on the question of whether his campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election. In the course of implicating Trump in other alleged criminal activity, Cohen said he did not witness or know directly of collusion “but I have my suspicions.” He didn’t say “no collusion.”
 · Michael Cohen's lawyer has said his client is ready to tell special counsel Robert Mueller "all he knows" about President Donald Trump and the "conspiracy to collude and corrupt the 2016 election."
 · Cohen, who also worked as Trump's fixer, told lawmakers he had no direct knowledge of collusion but that he had suspicions. Trump however insisted his former lawyer said no collusion had taken...
 · Cohen’s Lawyer Suggests Trump Knew About Collusion August 21, 2018 at 9:54 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment Lanny Davis strongly suggested to Rachel Maddow that his client Michael Cohen has information for special counsel Robert Mueller on the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia and Donald Trump’s personal knowledge of plans for …
In the current political discussion, “collusion” doesn’t refer to a specific federal crime. As former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote in TIME in December, “the term collusion has no legal meaning in this context.”. That doesn’t mean no laws were broken, however. Based on the facts uncovered so far, experts say there are four broad areas ...
Trump’s own lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, seemed to indicate that more evidence may come out, telling CNN that he “never said” there was no collusion between the campaign and Russia, only ruling out direct involvement with the president.
House Democrats are now investigating a BuzzFeed report that Trump told his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project. That’s put more attention on the second half of the defense. The president has a point.
Five people ensnared in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation have already been charged with lying to investigators or Congress: George Papadopoulos, Rick Gates, Michael Flynn, Alex van der Zwaan and Michael Cohen.
Mueller had already reportedly been looking into whether Trump obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, because Trump indicated that the firing had to do with the investigation into his relationship with Russia.
As presidential historian Jon Meacham noted on Twitter, “The first article of impeachment against Nixon was just this: obstruction by directing others to lie. This is not hysteria or hyperventilating. It’s history.”.
Election law prohibits foreign nationals from “ directly or indirectly” making “a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election.”