Whitaker ‘did not deny’ talking to Trump about Cohen, top Democrat says
With the question of President Trump’s possible meddling in criminal cases that could implicate him front and center, former acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker appeared Wednesday for an interview with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and, Nadler says, made a slight but significant change in the account he gave in an open hearing of his conversations with the president.
At the the hearing last month, Whitaker gave what appeared to be a carefully phrased statement intended to exonerate the president from allegations that could lead to charges he tried to subvert the investigation into Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer. But during combative questioning by Democrats, Whitaker was asked by Nadler whether he had “communicated any information” he had learned in briefings with investigators to the president.
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