Mueller report 'found no documentary evidence' to indicate that President Trump knew ahead of time about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between top campaign officials and a Kremlin-connected lawyer.
The president's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen, who is set to start a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to a list of federal felonies, including two relating to paying off women who alleged affairs with the president on Trump's behalf,Mueller wrote that although Cohen"believed that Trump Jr. had previously discussed the meeting with his father," the attorney"was not involved in any such conversation.
"According to Hicks, Kushner said that he wanted to fill the President in on something that had been discovered in the documents he was to provide to the congressional committees involving a meeting with him, Manafort, and Trump Jr." Mueller wrote."Kushner brought a folder of documents to [a] meeting and tried to show them to the President, but the President stopped Kushner and said he did not want to know about it, shutting the conversation down.
Hicks warned Trump that the emails were"really bad" and the story surrounding them would be"massive" once it broke, Mueller wrote, but Trump was"insistent that he did not want to talk about it and said he did not want details." In text messages provided to Mueller, Hicks agreed with Trump Jr. but said his father didn't want that in the statement because"he was worried it invites questions."
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