Responding to a reporter who said that Cohen had called him a liar, a conman, and a racist, Trump said: 'It's incorrect.'
President Donald Trump made his first comments about the testimony of his former lawyer in a press conference Thursday following hisResponding to a reporter who said that Cohen had called him a liar, a conman, and a racist during hisWednesday before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, Trump said:"It's incorrect."
"[Cohen] lied a lot, but it was very interesting because he didn't lie about one thing. He said 'no collusion' with the Russian hoax. And I said, 'I wonder why he didn't just lie about that too, like he did about everything else?' He lied about so many different things. Cohen did not, in fact, tell the committee there was"no collusion". He said he did not know if there had been collusion, but had"suspicions", adding:"Sometime in the summer of 2017, I read all over the media that there had been a meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016 involving Don Jr. and others from the campaign with Russians, including a representative of the Russian government, and an email setting up the meeting with the subject line, 'Dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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