That’s a nice detail to be added in, and it points to the larger picture where Trump is directing the messaging about all of these things swirling around him. That points to him trying to interfere in ways we don’t know about yet, but may find out about in the Mueller report. That’s really a hook into conspiracy and cover up, and hopefully people keep following the crumbs to find the meal.
Anybody who knows a narcissistic control-freak like Trump (and most of us DO) understands that Trump would never, EVER allow someone like Cohen to talk to ANYBODY about something that could embarrass Trump without direct, detailed instructions from Trump on how to respond to queries about it.
Rep. Cummings…time to subpoena Jay Sekulow and Allen Weisselberg.
That’s if Mueller and SDNY are finished with him.
Since Republicans are totally void of any originality whatsoever, and since I am conveniently obsessed with the Iran Contra Scandal and how a senile Ronald Reagan was able to pull off plausible deniability because he was too old, and everyone did all these things without specifically informing me etc, I note the attempt to reprise the Fig Leaf Defense here…that all these people did all these horrible things on their own and did not include me in their high handed unilateral decisions.
As @khaaannn notes, that is not gonna fly with Donald Trump.