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    House Democrats Shift Their Focus From Collusion to Leverage

    Michael Cohen’s guilty plea has raised the specter that Russia had compromising information on President Trump related to his business dealings during the campaign.
    by Andrew Kragie Dec 03, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP

    The House Democrats preparing to lead their own Russia probes appear to be turning their attention from possible collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russian intelligence to potential Russian leverage over the president. The turning point came last week when Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the Trump Organization’s dealings in Russia during the election.

    Cohen acknowledged in a criminal information filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he had sought support from the Kremlin for a Trump Tower in Moscow and had spoken at length to a Russian government official.

    “There is now a witness who confirms that in the same way [convicted former National-Security Adviser] Michael.

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