II.K. The President's Conduct Involving Michael Cohen (Mueller Report 2020 Update)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 22 June 2020
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Summary
On Friday, June 19, 2020, the Department of Justice released unredacted portions of the Mueller Report relating to Roger Stone. In the days ahead, I'm planning to re-release sections of the Mueller Report with the newly available information. The only unredacted material in this section appears at 33:26 and ends at 33:47.
Part 11 of 12 from Section II. Factual Results of the Obstruction Investigation. This subsection of Volume 2, pages 134-156, details the President's conduct toward Michael Cohen with regard to Cohen's involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow Project, his statements to attempt to distance Trump from Russia, and conduct by the President once Cohen began cooperating with the Special Council.
The President's Conduct Involving Michael Cohen (1:00)
- Candidate Trump's Awareness of and Involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow Project (2:52)
- Cohen Determines to Adhere to a "Party Line" Distancing Candidate Trump From Russia (8:57)
- Cohen Submits False Statements to Congress Minimizing the Trump Tower Moscow Project in Accordance with the Party Line (10:43)
- The President Sends Messages of Support to Cohen (20:42)
- The President's Conduct After Cohen Began Cooperating with the Government (26:44)
Analysis (37:07)
- Obstructive act (37:16)
- Whether the President or others aided or participated in Cohen's false statements to Congress (37:38)
- Whether the President took actions that would have the natural tendency to prevent Cohen from providing truthful information to the government (40:35)
- Nexus to a proceeding (42:47)
- Intent (43:08)
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Mueller Report audio podcast. I'm Dan Williams. On Friday, June 19, 2020, the Department of Justice released unredacted portions of the Mueller report relating to Roger Stone. This is one of the re-release sections with the newly available information. |
| 0:23.9 | If you are looking for more readings of government documents without political commentary, |
| 0:28.7 | please subscribe to my newest podcast, Government Unfiltered. |
| 0:33.2 | My June 2020 episode is a reading of a House Oversight Report, |
| 0:37.4 | describing the Middle East Marshall Plan and concern over the transfer of nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. |
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| 0:47.0 | I produce the audio, and you decide what it's worth. |
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| 0:58.6 | Section 2K. |
| 1:01.1 | The President's Conduct involving Michael Cohen. |
| 1:04.4 | Overview |
| 1:05.0 | The President's Conduct involving Michael Cohen spans the full period of our investigation. |
| 1:10.6 | During the campaign, Cohen pursued |
| 1:12.4 | the Trump Tower Moscow project on behalf of the Trump Organization. Cohen briefed candidate Trump on |
| 1:17.7 | the project numerous times, including discussing whether Trump should travel to Russia to advance |
| 1:22.5 | the deal. After the media began questioning Trump's connections to Russia, Cohen promoted a party line |
| 1:28.7 | that publicly distanced Trump from Russia and asserted he had no business there. |
| 1:33.6 | Cohen continued to adhere to that party line in 2017, when Congress asked him to provide |
| 1:38.7 | documents and testimony in its Russia investigation. |
| 1:41.7 | In an attempt to minimize the president's connections to Russia, |
| 1:45.2 | Cohen submitted a letter to Congress falsely stating that he only briefed Trump on the Trump Tower |
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