Cohen produced the edited docs

Michael Cohen on Wednesday provided the House Intelligence Committee with new documents showing edits to the false written statement he delivered to Congress in 2017 about the Trump Organization's pursuit of the Trump Tower Moscow project into the 2016 campaign season, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

The documents Cohen provided are intended to further explain his public testimony last week, in which Cohen said that President Donald Trump's then-personal lawyer Jay Sekulow made changes to his statement to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and that it was reviewed ahead of time by lawyers like Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the President's daughter and son-in-law who are both White House advisers.

It's unclear what Cohen's documents show was specifically changed in the statement. Cohen is testifying Wednesday behind closed doors at the House Intelligence Committee.

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As CNN previously reported, according to two of the sources familiar with the preparation, including one close to the Trump Organization and one close to the President's legal team, the lawyers had no indication that any of the information in the testimony of Trump's now-former longtime attorney and fixer was inaccurate.

  CNN

Which makes me wonder what the changes they made were.







I guess we would need to know even before that, what changes were made.  If they made a change to his statement, then that implies 1) they believed it was false, 2) they knew it was true and they changed it to something false, or 3) they changed it so that it was vauge, but not false.

Two of the people familiar with the documents, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the closed-door session, said that at least some of the changes appeared to play down the knowledge of the president’s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, about the project.

  NYT

They really want to protect Ivanka.

Cohen currently is scheduled to report to prison on May 6.  That extension from today's original date was in part to allow him to prepare for testimony.  Now that his testimony is complete, it seems like he ought to be able to get started.  Maybe he's being given some extra time for cooperating.  And maybe he's going to have to produce more documents.

But it looks like we might be able to move on from Michael Cohen for a while.  Just in time for Paul Manafort to get sentenced in Virginia tomorrow for bank and tax fraud.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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