According to a major new report by the Daily
Mail in the United Kingdom, Michael Cohen,
Donald Trump's lawyer, during a meeting in
Trump Tower in December of 2016 met with officials
from Qatar, where he asked them to give him
millions of dollars that he would then pass
along to the Trump family.
Before we get into the details of this meeting
and this alleged deal that Cohen tried to
work out, let's just look at that statement
right there.
Michael Cohen asked officials from Qatar to
give him millions of dollars that he then
wanted to pass along to the Trump family.
That money was to be used as influence to
make sure that their policies towards Qatar
in the Middle East were friendly.
That is bribery, that is illegal.
And officials from Qatar have confirmed that
this did in fact take place.
There is photographic evidence that shows
Michael Cohen speaking with these officials
in Trump Tower.
There is no possible way that Michael Cohen
can lie his way out of this situation.
So, here's a little bit of backstory.
Officials from Qatar were meeting in Trump
Tower, Michael Cohen happened to just pop
in to the meeting, he was not an official
invitee to it.
But he popped in and spoke with them for just
a little bit, pictures were taken ... I don't
want to say without their knowledge, but they
weren't posing for pictures, they were more
candid.
And that's when Cohen asked for the money
that he wanted to pass along to the Trump
family in exchange for access and potential
favors from the president of the United States.
The reason Cohen not being invited to that
meeting but showing up anyway is important
is because of this, during that same time
we know that Donald Trump was holding meetings
inside of Trump Tower, meeting with officials,
meeting with celebrities, meeting with people
who wanted to get policy ideas heard, and
hoped to navigate and basically direct what
would happen during the Trump administration.
That's when he and Ivanka met to talk with
people about climate change and things like
that, it was going on in Trump Tower around
the same time.
So, it's unlikely that Cohen just happened
to pop into this other meeting that Trump
himself was not at, without guidance.
Cohen went in there knowing exactly who he
wanted to speak with, what you wanted to say,
and what he wanted to get in return.
I don't think, based on what we've seen, Cohen
is smart enough to know to do that.
I fully believe 100% that he was told to go
pop into that meeting, possibly by somebody
who had recently elected president, who has
most likely present in the building, to make
that happen.
And that is the missing link that we need
in this story, because while everybody's still
talking about Russian collusion, it may not
be the Russians that he was colluding with.
It could've been the officials from Qatar,
it could've been officials from Kuwait, who
also confirmed this story.
Donald Trump has some very shady deals in
his past, and all of this spotlight on Michael
Cohen, the recent raid by the FBI, is helping
to bring these to the public's attention.
There is eventually going to be a smoking
gun found in this situation, and to me this
meeting, this deal that Cohen tried to work
out, so far is the biggest smoking gun that
we've gotten from this investigation.
