Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen’s lawyer, has had to retract another unfounded claim. First, he claimed that President Trump had knowledge of the Trump tower meeting. After reports surfaced about Cohen testifying to a House committee that Trump didn’t know Davis was forced to issue a correction.
Mr. Davis recently claimed that President Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacking. This claim was apparently made on instinct and Davis was again forced to retract his statement.
According to The Daily Caller:
Lanny Davis, an attorney for Michael Cohen, is backtracking from his stunning claim that President Donald Trump had advance knowledge of Russian hacking efforts.
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In an interview Tuesday with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, Davis said Cohen, a former lawyer for Trump, has “knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not Mr. Trump knew ahead of time about that crime and even cheered it on.”
An in an interview Wednesday, Davis said his client “has information that would be of interest to Mr. Mueller in his probe of a conspiracy to corrupt American democracy, very similar to the indictment of the 12 Russians.”
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Asked by WaPo on Saturday whether he was certain that Trump knew about computer hacks before they occurred, Davis told the newspaper: “I am not sure. There’s a possibility that is the case. But I am not sure.”
Mr. Davis is a known Clinton associate and his claims based on instinct are nothing but questionable. He continues to chip away at the credibility of both he and his client.
