Last month CNN claimed, via their very reliable sources, that Cohen was willing to flip on Trump and admit that he knew about the Trump Tower meeting:
And remember, Trump defended himself against the report the next morning:
.....I did NOT know of the meeting with my son, Don jr. Sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam (Taxi cabs maybe?). He even retained Bill and Crooked Hillary’s lawyer. Gee, I wonder if they helped him make the choice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2018
Well as it turns out, this morning Axios is reporting that Cohen testified before the Senate Intel Committee that he didn’t know if Trump knew about the meeting:
Michael Cohen told lawmakers last year, in sworn testimony, that he didn’t know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians, three sources with knowledge of Cohen’s testimony tell Axios.
His attorney Lanny Davis says this is still the case now:
And Cohen still doesn’t know whether Trump knew about the infamous meeting, according to Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis. “Nothing has changed,” he told Axios. News reports last month said Cohen was willing to assert to special counsel Robert Mueller that Trump did know about the meeting in advance.
So why didn’t Lanny come out last month and debunk the claims?
I asked Davis why he didn’t shoot down last month’s stories.
Davis, after a long day of TV hits defending Cohen, said: “It was painful. We were not the source, we could not confirm, and we could not correct. We had to be silent because of the sensitivity needed in the middle of a criminal investigation.”
So Trump was right, that someone was making up stories.