Trump was Colluding With The Russians NEW Proof Moscow had ‘leverage’ on Trump

Two top Democrats who will head up probes into the Trump
administration in the House next year pointed to Michael Cohen’s
admission that he lied about the then-presidential candidate’s
business deals in Moscow as proof that Russia had “leverage”
on the president.

“The fact that he was lying to the American people about doing
business in Russia, and that the Kremlin knew he was lying, gave
the Kremlin a hold over him. And one question we have now is does
the Kremlin still have a hold over him because of other lies they
know about,” Rep. Jerry Nadler said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the
Press.”

Nadler, who will take over as chairman of the House Judiciary
Committee when Democrats take control of the chamber in January,
questioned why Trump has been so “obsequious” to Russian leader
Vladimir Putin during the 2016 election and his time as
president.

“And it may be that it’s because the Kremlin has leverage over
the president, which is a terrible thing if true,” he said.

Rep. Adam Schiff, who will become the head of the House
Intelligence Committee, said the admission by Cohen – Trump’s
former lawyer – that he lied to Congress about negotiations
over building a Trump tower in Moscow during the GOP
presidential primary suggests the president was compromised.

“And once more, the Russians knew it wasn’t true, that at the
same time that Donald Trump was the presumptive nominee of the GOP,
and arguing in favor of doing away with sanctions, he was working
on a deal that would require doing away with sanctions for him to
make money in Russia,” the California Democrat said on ABC’s
“This Week.”

“That is a real problem, it means that the compromise is far
broader than we thought,” he continued.

He said Russia’s knowledge that Cohen and Trump were lying
raises the same national security concerns that former National
Security adviser Michael Flynn’s lying about his meetings with a
Russian official during the campaign did.

“There is now a witness who confirms that in the same way
Michael Flynn was compromised, that the president and his business
are compromised,” Schiff said. “Flynn was compromised because he
was saying things – things publicly that were not true about
discussions with the Russians over sanctions.”

Cohen pleaded guilty last week of telling congressional panels
that Trump had ended talks about a Trump tower in Moscow in
February 2016 – before the critical Iowa presidential caucuses.

But he later admitted to briefing Trump and Trump’s family
members about negotiations with the Russians until June 2016 – a
month before Republicans picked Trump as their presidential
nominee.

Flynn resigned in January 2017 after his contacts with
Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislak were revealed.

He pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI and is
cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russian
investigation.