The two Michael Cohen’s?

Davis distinguished between the Cohen who consistently lied for Trump vs. the one who exited a joint defense agreement with the president’s lawyers and turned against Trump last June. But he maintained that Cohen “never directly asked Donald Trump for a pardon. That’s a true statement.”

“He was at the time part of a joint defense agreement, what some people call a liars’ club … he sent one of his lawyers over to talk to Mr. [Rudy] Giuliani to discuss the option [of a pardon] because it was being dangled out of the water like a piece of bait by Mr. Trump … and he explored that option. But that was the Michael Cohen who is lying.”

— Lanny Davis, attorney for Michael Cohen

• Davis said the “second Michael Cohen,” who called him last year and told him that he was “tired of lying for Donald Trump,” and after that he never explored a pardon.
• The letter from Monico also states: “In retrospect, while the sentence could have been clearer regarding the time frames, the sentence is true, and Mr. Cohen stands by his statement.”

The bottom line: There is nothing illegal about a subject in a criminal investigation seeking a presidential pardon. The issue is whether Cohen, who will begin a three year prison sentence in May, lied to Congress when said he had “never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon” from Trump…..

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