I’ll have a post on this later but the Cohen House hearing starts of with Cummings vs Jordan…..
Jordan going after Democrats for having a Cohen, who lied to Congress before….
Jordan tries to hang the whole appearance hang on Lanny Davis, a Cohen lawyer….
Cummings pushes on past Jordan…….
Cohen gives his opening statement….
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Cohen’s testimony is actually riveting….
Cohen is the FIRST to go after Trump DIRECTLY…..
On National Teleivsion….
This is NOT lawyer Bull Shit…
This is Trump’s worst nightmare …..
The Trump supporters are gonna HAVE TO go hard at Cohen, who has actually pulling back the covers on Donald J. Trump….
Remember…..
Mueller & Co. KNOWS All off this….
The US Attorney of the Southern District KNOWS this….
Cohen IS spilling the beans on several different things that where obscure and some forgotten….
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Make no mistake…
Cohen is making criminal accusations on National TV….
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Cohen drags in Donald Trump Jr.
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Cohen also presents to the Congress paperwork on Trump’s business worth…
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‘I am no longer your fixer Donald Trump’
I will not accept a pardon’
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‘Mr Trump called me a rat ..much like a mobster would do’…..
Trying to intimidate me with attacks on my family…..
Thanks Pelosi, Cummings , Democrats and Republicans who have supported him….
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I may not be able to change the past…
But I hope to change the future…
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Cummings admonishes him against lying again….
Cohen says he’s lost his lawyers license….
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Jordan goes after Michael Cohen…
Keeps at he has lied….
Cohen bites back….
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Democrats on the Oversight Committee seek answers too questions….
Republicans attack Cohen…
NOT his revelations about Trump
Rep.Meadows tries to get Cummings to add addition charges against Cohen, who has been convinced of lying for what seems as a pushback against his testifying against Trump…
Washington Post….
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer and personal lawyer, has returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for public testimony before the House Oversight Committee in what is expected to be a compelling appearance. Here are the highlights of his testimony so far.
●Cohen has alleged that Trump knew in advance that the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks planned to publish hacked Democratic National Committee emails.
●He has sparred aggressively with GOP lawmakers, who have questioned his credibility and motives for coming forward.
●He detailed how deeply and personally involved Trump was in the scheme to pay off an adult film actress who alleged she had an affair with Trump.
● He described how he, like many in Trump’s orbit, had long sought to protect the president, but made clear: “I am not protecting Mr. Trump anymore.”
● He has suggested federal prosecutors are investigating unspecified criminal allegations involving the president that have not been made public…..
NY Times….
Here are the most important highlights so far:
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Mr. Cohen said that Mr. Trump, while president, told him to lie to the public about hush payments to the pornographic film star Stormy Daniels.
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Mr. Cohen presented life in “Trump world” as a Faustian bargain in which he and others sacrificed their integrity for the “intoxicating” whiff of power.
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Mr. Cohen acknowledged that he lied under oath to Congress about a Trump Tower project in Moscow, saying he was trying to protect Mr. Trump. “I am not protecting Mr. Trump anymore,” he said.
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Republicans are assailing his credibility, noting that he is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress.
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Mr. Cohen said he had no evidence of collusion with Russia but did have suspicions.
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Mr. Cohen offered a blistering assessment of the president: “He is a racist. He is a con man. And he is a cheat.” And Mr. Cohen provided documents including copies of checks and financial statements. [Read his opening statement.]
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Cohen says Trump told him to lie about a hush payment
Mr. Cohen said Mr. Trump asked him to lie to the public about a scheme hatched in the run-up to the 2016 election to make $130,000 in hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress who claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump.
Mr. Cohen said that Mr. Trump, as a candidate, initiated the hush payment plan and, while president, arranged for 11 checks reimbursing the lawyer “as part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws,” a crime to which Mr. Cohen has pleaded guilty.
After news reports about the payments in February 2018, Mr. Cohen told lawmakers, the president called him to discuss what the lawyer should say publicly about the scheme. Mr. Trump told him to say that the president “was not knowledgeable of these reimbursements and he wasn’t knowledgeable of” Mr. Cohen’s actions….
image….NBC News. Com
“The interesting thing is that there hasn’t been one Republican yet who has tried to defend the president on the substance, and I think that’s something that should be concerning to the White House. Why are no Republicans standing up and defending the president on the substance?”
— Former Gov. Chris Christie (R), in an interview on ABC News about the Michael Cohen hearings.
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ABC News captured this exchange between Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Michael Cohen during today’s House Oversight Committee hearing:
GOSAR: You’re a pathological liar. You don’t know truth from falsehood.
COHEN: Sir, I’m sorry, are you referring to me or the President?
Politicalwire…
There will be a post on this later….
BUT?
Cohen has pointed out the fact that the Southern District of NY is what Trump should be afraid of….
Mueller has a cut off date
The US Atty does NOT…