Other covert contacts with federal witnesses by Trump and his legal team include Trump contacting Michael Flynn in April 2017 and telling him to “stay strong”; a November 2017 phone call to Flynn by Trump’s attorney John Dowd, a call that, according to the special counsel’s office, “could have affected both [Flynn’s] willingness to cooperate [with federal prosecutors] and the completeness of that cooperation”; and an allegation by former Trump attorney Michael Cohen that one of his successors in that role, Jay Sekulow, “reviewed, shaped, and edited” Cohen’s false testimony to Congress
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