Cohen Testifies to Congress: Key Updates – The New York Times

He pointed to the June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower in which Donald Trump Jr., the candidate’s eldest son; Jared Kushner, his son-in-law; and Paul Manafort, the campaign chairman; met with visiting Russians after being told that they had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government.

The president has denied knowing about the meeting at the time, but Mr. Cohen cast doubt on that, saying he was in Mr. Trump’s office in June 2016 once when Donald Jr. came in, went behind his father’s desk and, speaking in a low voice, said, “The meeting is all set.” The candidate, he said, replied, “O.K., good. Let me know.”

Mr. Cohen said that might have referred to the Russia meeting because “Mr. Trump had frequently told me and others that his son Don Jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world” and that his son “would never set up any meeting of significance alone and certainly not without checking with his father.”

The paper trail: Mr. Cohen provides documents to incriminate Mr. Trump.

Mr. Cohen provided several documents to the committee in addition to the check. He offered what he said were financial statements that Mr. Trump gave to institutions such as Deutsche Bank from 2011 to 2013 and said the president inflated his assets when it served his purposes and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes.