Sunday, March 3, 2019

Cohen testifies against Trump: "racist," "conman," "cheat" (video)

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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Oversight and Reform Committee ranking Republican, left, takes his seat next to Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Feb. 26, 2019. The committee voted to subpoena Trump administration officials over family separations at the southern border, the first issued in the new Congress as Democrats have promised to hold the administration aggressively to count. The decision by the Oversight Committee will compel the heads of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services to deliver documents (AP).
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Cohen sticks it to Trump, shaking off GOP critics
The only national emergency is Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pres. Trump's former personal lawyer and "fix-it man" declared under oath today that Trump knew ahead of time and embraced the news when told that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Michael Cohen also testified that Trump is a "racist," a "conman," and a "cheat."

Cohen, called to testify by Democrats over the objections of Republicans, suggested that Trump also implicitly told him to lie about a Moscow real estate project.

Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the project, which he says Trump knew about as Cohen was negotiating with Russia during the 2016 election campaign.
 
The hearing was producing the most damning depiction to date of Trump's campaign and business operations from a onetime member of his inner circle. It was the latest step in Cohen's evolution from legal fixer for the president -- he once boasted he'd "take a bullet" for Trump -- to a foe who has implicated him in federal campaign finance violations.

"I am ashamed of my weakness and misplaced loyalty, of the things I did for Mr. Trump in an effort to protect and promote him," Cohen said. "I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience. I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is." More
Cohen details hush money lie to Mrs. Trump
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Latest on Pres. Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (all times local): 2:40 p.m. Trump's former lawyer says he was pressured by the president to lie to first lady Melania (meh-LAH'-nee-ah) Trump about hush money payments made to a porn actress who alleged she had an affair with Donald Trump. More

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