By Aaron Blake writing for The Fix in the Washington Post –
President Trump has denied a New York Times report that he asked then-Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker to appoint an ally in the Southern District of New York to run the investigation of Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer. U.S. attorney Geoffrey S. Berman had recused himself from the case because of a conflict of interest.
But Whitaker’s carefully worded denials suggest there is something to the explosive story.
