Cohen served as a deputy finance chair for the RNC, a top fundraising post, from April 2017 through June 2018.
Cohen’s lawyers also sent lawmakers a 12-page memo, first reported by BuzzFeed, outlining evidence Cohen has offered congressional committees about Trump.
The memo mentions Cohen’s knowledge of possible illegal foreign donations in just one sentence, which cites “possible federal campaign finance violations by the Republican National Committee, including possibly illegal conduiting of illegal substantial donations to the RNC by foreign nationals, including from China.”.
This claim comes amid mounting investigative attention to possible illegal contributions from citizens of China and other countries.
Cohen testified in February that Trump had encouraged him to lie by repeating claims they both knew to be false.
Cohen said he understood based on his experience working for Trump that the president expected Cohen to echo those false claims.
But so far, the attorney general has produced less evidence to support his claims than Cohen has to back up his own. »
