{"id":41577,"date":"2016-06-30T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41577"},"modified":"2016-06-30T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T12:06:09","slug":"donald-trumps-lawyer-tweets-image-that-claims-hillary-clinton-murdered-an-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41577","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump\u2019s lawyer tweets image that claims Hillary Clinton \u2018murdered an ambassador\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Dylan Stableford<br \/>\nYahoo News<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_41582\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/01a937042bbd64bb12cce56fefef296e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41582\" class=\"wp-image-41582\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/01a937042bbd64bb12cce56fefef296e.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Links on Saturday in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/01a937042bbd64bb12cce56fefef296e.jpg 744w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/01a937042bbd64bb12cce56fefef296e-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Links on Saturday in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<figure class=\"canvas-image Mx(a) canvas-atom Mt(0px) Mt(20px)--sm Mb(24px) Mb(22px)--sm\" data-type=\"image\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.3\">\n<div class=\"Maw(100%) Pos(r) H(0) Cur(p)\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.3.0\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"canvas-body C(#26282a) Wow(bw) Cl(start) Mb(20px) Fz(15px) Lh(1.6) Ff($ff-secondary)\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4\">\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$2\">Donald Trump\u2019s longtime lawyer published a tweet on Tuesday that accused Hillary Clinton of selling uranium to Russia through a fake charity, illegally deleting public records and murdering a U.S. ambassador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$2\">Michael Cohen, executive vice president of the Trump Organization and special counsel to the presumptive Republican nominee, posted an image of the former secretary of state that included the conspiratorial accusations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$3\">\u201cI presided over $6 billion lost at the State Department, sold uranium to the Russians through my faux charity, illegally deleted public records, and murdered an ambassador,\u201d the text above Clinton\u2019s image read. \u201cElect Me!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"canvas-tweet canvas-atom\" data-type=\"tweet\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$4\">\n<div class=\"SandboxRoot env-bp-350\" data-twitter-event-id=\"0\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NBC\/WSJ poll has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> beating <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CrookedHillary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CrookedHillary<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Honesty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Honesty<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalSecurity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NationalSecurity<\/a>. This picture says it all! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E9YKIgoqnV\">pic.twitter.com\/E9YKIgoqnV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelCohen212\/status\/747747571045642240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$6\">Cohen did not immediately respond to a request seeking evidence of the accusations. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2016\/06\/28\/trump-lawyer-tweets-image-saying-hillary-clinton-murdered-ambassador\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">in an email to the Washington Post<\/a>, he sought to distance himself from the campaign. Cohen has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">repeatedly appeared<\/a> on CNN as a Trump surrogate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$7\">\u201cAs you are well aware, I am not part of the campaign and do not speak on behalf of Mr. Trump,\u201d he\u00a0wrote to the Post. \u201cMy tweets are mine and mine alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$8\">Cohen\u2019s Tuesday tweet was published hours before Republicans on the House Select Committee on Benghazi <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/house-republicans-report-fault-obama-benghazi-attacks-113746460--politics.html\">released its final report<\/a> on the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, at a U.S. outpost in Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$9\">The committee blamed the Obama administration for what it concluded was a slow response to help the Americans under attack. But the report did not find that Clinton, head of the State Department at the time, did anything illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$10\">Democrats on the Benghazi committee blasted the GOP report as \u201ca conspiracy theory on steroids \u2014 bringing back long-debunked allegations with no credible evidence whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$11\">Trump himself has repeatedly accused Clinton of breaking the law by using a private email server for official State Department business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$12\">\u201cWhat she did is illegal,\u201d Trump said last week. \u201cShe shouldn\u2019t have had a server.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm canvas-atom\" data-type=\"text\" data-reactid=\".1ybg38fpd20.$tgtm-Col1-0-ContentCanvas.0.4.0:$13\">And the brash real estate mogul has floated other far-right-wing conspiracy theories about the Clintons. In a May interview with the Washington Post, Trump <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-escalates-attack-on-bill-clinton\/2016\/05\/23\/ed109acc-2100-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">mused about the \u201cvery fishy\u201d circumstances<\/a> surrounding the 1993 death of Vincent Foster, the former White House aide who both police and federal investigators determined had committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/michael-cohen-hillary-tweet-trump-000000005.html?nhp=1\">http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/michael-cohen-hillary-tweet-trump-000000005.html?nhp=1<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}