II.K. The President's Conduct Involving Michael Cohen (Mueller Report)
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Dan Williams
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🗓️ 4 May 2019
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Summary
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 (0:09)
- Candidate Trump's Awareness of and Involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow Project (2:00)
- Cohen Determines to Adhere to a "Party Line" Distancing Candidate Trump From Russia (8:06)
- Cohen Submits False Statements to Congress Minimizing the Trump Tower Moscow Project in Accordance with the Party Line (9:52)
- The President Sends Messages of Support to Cohen (19:51)
- The President's Conduct After Cohen Began Cooperating with the Government (25:53)
Analysis (36:00)
- Obstructive act (36:09)
- Whether the President or others aided or participated in Cohen's false statements to Congress (36:31)
- Whether the President took actions that would have the natural tendency to prevent Cohen from providing truthful information to the government (39:28)
- Nexus to a proceeding (41:40)
- Intent (42:02)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mueller Report Audio. |
| 0:07.9 | Section 2K. |
| 0:10.0 | The President's Conduct involving Michael Cohen. |
| 0:13.3 | Overview |
| 0:13.8 | The President's conduct involving Michael Cohen spans the full period of our investigation. |
| 0:19.5 | During the campaign, Cohen pursued the Trump Tower |
| 0:21.9 | Moscow project on behalf of the Trump Organization. Cohen briefed candidate Trump on the project |
| 0:27.1 | numerous times, including discussing whether Trump should travel to Russia to advance the deal. |
| 0:32.5 | After the media began questioning Trump's connections to Russia, Cohen promoted a party line that publicly distanced |
| 0:39.0 | Trump from Russia and asserted he had no business there. Cohen continued to adhere to that party |
| 0:44.3 | line in 2017 when Congress asked him to provide documents and testimony in its Russia investigation. |
| 0:50.6 | In an attempt to minimize the president's connections to Russia, Cohen submitted a letter to Congress, |
| 0:55.8 | falsely stating that he only briefed Trump on the Trump Tower Moscow project three times, |
| 1:00.7 | that he did not consider asking Trump to travel to Russia, that Cohen had not received a response |
| 1:05.6 | to an outreach he made to the Russian government, and that the project ended in January 2016 |
| 1:10.7 | before the first |
| 1:12.0 | Republican caucus or primary. While working on the congressional statement, Cohen had extensive |
| 1:17.7 | discussions with the president's personal counsel, who, according to Cohen, said that Cohen |
| 1:22.1 | should not contradict the president and should keep the statement short and tight. After the FBI searched Cohen's home and office in April 2018, the president publicly asserted |
| 1:33.3 | that Cohen would not flip and privately passed messages of support to him. |
| 1:38.2 | Cohen also discussed pardons with the president's personal counsel and believed that if he |
| 1:42.6 | stayed on message, he would get a pardon or the |
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