Analysis: Cohen’s pardon testimony skirted the truth
Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, testifies before the House Oversight Committee on Feb. 27. By Aaron Blake Aaron Blake Senior political reporter, writing for The Fix Email Bio Follow March 7 at 8:31 AM Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week has again come into question — this time for his comment about a potential pardon from President Trump.
The comment came in his opening statement, which suggests a careful and planned parsing. Cohen didn’t quite say there were never any discussions about a pardon; he instead said he never asked for one. His comment about whether he would accept one is also notably in the present tense and doesn’t specifically address whether it’s something he would have accepted before he flipped on Trump.
She was asked later that day in a news briefing about the possibility, and again she declined to dismiss it: The next day, Trump was asked about the possibility. He called it a “stupid question” but did not dispute that it was a possibility. In a terse statement to The Washington Post earlier Wednesday, Sekulow flatly denied Cohen’s allegation, calling it “not true” — and declining to elaborate further.
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