Cohen to accuse Trump over WikiLeaks, Moscow project, hush payments

WASHINGTON: Michael Cohen, the former"fixer" and personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, will testify on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time about a leak of emails that would hurt his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.

Trump, who has denied any collusion between his campaign and Moscow, dismisses the Mueller investigation as a"witch hunt" and has said Cohen is a liar and a"rat.""He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time," Trump said in a tweet on Wednesday from Vietnam, where he was meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try to break a stalemate over the North's nuclear weapons.

Cohen said Stone told Trump he had been speaking with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who told him there would be a dump of emails within a couple of days that would damage Clinton's campaign.On Jul 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released internal DNC emails that drove a wedge between supporters of Clinton and her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders. Although Clinton won the nomination, that rift weakened her election bid.

Cohen, 52, was one of Trump's closest aides and fiercest defenders, working with him on business and personal deals for a decade. But he turned against him last year and is cooperating with prosecutors after pleading guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations.

Trump has denied having advance knowledge of the meeting, which has come under intense scrutiny in the Mueller probe.Cohen said in his draft statement he regrets the things he did for Trump. They included, he said, hush-money payments to two women and writing letters on Trump's orders that threatened Trump's high school, colleges and the College Board not to release his grades.

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