Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow on Wednesday offered a narrow denial of former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s claim that Sekulow made edits to his false 2017 congressional testimony, and that the edits were related to, in Cohen’s words, “the length of time that the Trump Tower Moscow project stayed and remained alive.”
NEW: Statement from Jay Sekulow, Counsel to the President:
“Today’s testimony by Michael Cohen that attorneys for the President edited or changed his statement to Congress to alter the duration of the Trump Tower Moscow negotiations is completely false.”— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) February 27, 2019
LOTTA wiggle room in there… Lawyers pass it to Jared or Jr. who does the edits, then passes back through them, not covered… Any other edits the lawyers did do, not covered…
Jay Sekulow is the Rudy Giuliani of Alan Dershowitzes.
Yep, that’s a narrow denial, alright. Now prove it. ‘Cause I’m guessing there’s a markup somewhere.
Is “narrow” the right word to describe this denial? And it seems to me that if Cohen was telling the truth about this, Sekulow’s only recourse if he’s to save his professional skin is to lie and hope there’s no documentation of the truth anywhere. Because at this point it’s not Cohen who’s got more to lose by telling the truth than by lying.
Yes. It only covers that the lawyers didn’t edit the Trump Tower date. So other parties could have.
And the lawyers could have edited every other word in the paper except the date, and this statement would be objectively true…