Michael Cohen’s attorney once approached President Trump’s lawyers about a pardon following the FBI raid on Cohen properties last year, but such an idea was shortly dismissed, Fox News has confirmed. The possibility of a presidential pardon was shot down by Trump’s lawyers, including Jay Sekulow, Rudy Giuliani and Joanna Hendon. Giuliani, while dismissing it at the time, reportedly left the possibility that the president could grant Cohen a pardon in the future. “I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from Mr. Trump,” Cohen said last week. "We stand by the truth of Mr. Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight Committee," Cohen spokesman Lanny Davis said in response to the pardon report.

Source: Fox News March 05, 2019 12:12 UTC