Trump Denies Trying To Interfere In Cohen Probe: ‘I Don’t Know Who Gave You That’

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President Donald Trump denied reporting from the New York Times Tuesday that he called then-acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker to try to install a Trump ally at the head of the Michael Cohen probe.

“No, not at all,” he told reporters Tuesday when asked if he had done that. “I don’t know who gave you that. That’s more fake news.”

He continued to talk about the abundance of fake news circulating and waxed lyrical about Whitaker’s person, saying that he is owed “a lot of thanks by our nation.”

The Times reported that the President asked Whitaker to get Trump-friendly attorney Geoffrey Berman in Manhattan to head the Cohen investigation, even though Berman had recused himself from the probe. Though there was no evidence that Whitaker directly intervened, he did conclude that he could not reverse Berman’s recusal, per the Times.

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  1. I have lost tract here. So that’s lie 80001???

  2. "I don’t even know who Matt Whitaker is, but he is owed a lot of thanks by our nation. And Russia.”

  3. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    “I don’t know who gave you that” is a weird thing to say right after you accuse somebody of making something up. Because if you made something up, nobody gave you the story. You made it up.

  4. NYT is one big lying machine, unlike you, Donnie, pure as the driven snow.

  5. There’s not much anymore that is certain, but I am damn sure that I don’t owe Matt Whitaker shit.

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