House Republicans release Bruce Ohr interview transcript
By Karoun Demirjian Karoun Demirjian Congressional reporter focusing on national security Email Bio Follow March 8 at 10:13 AM The House Judiciary Committee’s top Republican on Friday released the transcript of an interview with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who came under the GOP’s scrutiny last year over his contacts with the author of a controversial dossier alleging President Trump had personal and financial ties to Russian officials.
Rep. Douglas A. Collins , the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, elected to release Ohr’s transcript — the first of many interview records he is planning to put out in the coming weeks — with no redactions, over the objections of Justice Department officials who wanted to keep some information out of public view.
The president has denied he ever worked closely with Sater, and has sought to discredit Cohen’s testimony, calling him a liar and a “rat.” Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress and will begin a three-year prison sentence in May, has acknowledged that he once lied about the timeline of a Moscow tower that Trump was trying to build well into his presidential campaign to protect the president from scrutiny.
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