Report: Cohen Won't Deny Questioning Trump's Fitness to Be President

Embattled lawyer Michael Cohen on Saturday would not deny a report saying he has privately questioned President Donald Trump’s fitness to be president, telling Axios he “cannot comment about someone’s innuendo.”

Cohen, Trump’s longtime personal lawyer currently under criminal investigation in New York for his business dealings, has been openly questioning Trump’s fitness as president since Trump’s widely criticized press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Finland last week according to sources who spoke with Axios.

Trump during the press conference declined to challenge Putin’s insistence that his country did not meddle in the election, then backtracked a day later by saying he misspoke in his comments and that he accepted the assessment of U.S. intelligence agencies that Moscow interfered.  

"It's one thing for him [Cohen] to be concerned about his suitability to be president," one source told Axios. "It's quite another thing to be concerned about his [Trump's] loyalty to his country.”

Cohen later tweeted:

As I said to @ABC @GStephanopoulos, “I respect our nation’s intelligence agencies who determined that Russia, had in fact, interfered or meddled in our democratic process. I repudiate Russia’s effort...and call on all Americans to do the same.”

— Michael Cohen (@MichaelCohen212) July 16, 2018

Since Cohen's office was raided in April by the FBI, Trump has moved to distance himself from his longtime personal lawyer. The president slammed Cohen on Saturday following reports that Cohen had taped a conversation with him concerning payments to a former Playboy model. 

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