Okay...that is indeed one heck of a report.
Copies of letters I wrote at Mr. Trump’s direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his grades or SAT scores.
Just when you thought there could fall more skeletons out of the (clown car type of) closet, this happens. What the hell is this even about? We all know W. Bush was at best an average student...it didn't stop him from being...erm...okay, absolutely not my kind of president, but it was not like many took offense on his grades. So why threaten this in the first place?
Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That’s not how he operates. In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell 5 me there’s no business in Russia and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way, he was telling me to lie.
Phew...that sort of thing sure is going to spark some controversies.
You need to know that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it.
Erm...I can certainly understand "reviewed"...but EDITED???
And last but in no means least:
To be clear: Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project
I hate to bash the conspiracies against Trump here, but this would seem like (as far as Cohen knows) Trump is indeed innocent to COLLUSION. Yes, he had a hundreds of millions deal with Russia on the line on which he lied, but it wasn't a deal in which things like "the assistance of Russian social engineers" or "hacking the ballots" where part of the deal.