Presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway Wednesday rejected claims expected to be made in public testimony by President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen that Trump knew his ally Roger Stone was speaking with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"I was a campaign manager and I never participated in a phone call like that," Conway told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "That is very curious, isn't it? The campaign was on an entirely different floor. Donald Trump, the candidate, was flying around the country most days."
Cohen, according to a released copy of the opening statement he'll make to the House Oversight Committee, plans to explain how he'd heard Stone, over a speakerphone in Trump's New York office, say that he'd been in contact with Assange and that there would be a dump of emails concerning then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
"It is always curious that the campaign manager for the successful part of the campaign is not privy to any of these conversations, yet people who were not part of the campaign are out there puffing around saying I was doing this, I was doing that," said Conway. "I want to make another point I made to the president privately, that is this — there were two kinds of people around him particularly the last part of the campaign, and those pretending to be around him last part of the campaign."
The hearings Wednesday are not a court of law, Conway said, and Cohen lied the last time he was before Congress.
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