Russia's Peskov Shares 2016 Emails From Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen
- Putin spokesman reveals Cohen emails on planned Moscow project
- Trump defends pursuit of Russia business in 2016 campaign
Michael Cohen exits federal court in New York on Nov. 29.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov revealed two emails on Friday from U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty the previous day to lying to Congress about a project in Moscow.
Peskov said that Cohen had used the January 2016 emails to request a meeting either with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s then-chief of staff Sergei Ivanov or Peskov himself.
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Russia's Peskov Shares 2016 Emails From Ex-Trump Lawyer Cohen