Posted on 02/26/2019 3:04:58 AM PST by oblomov
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
Appearing on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Cohen also will make public some of Mr. Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Mr. Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes, the person said. The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump’s accountant, the person said. The Wall Street Journal hasn’t seen those statements.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, will for the first time publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star, a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said.
Appearing on Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Cohen also will make public some of Mr. Trump’s private financial statements and allege that Mr. Trump at times inflated or deflated his net worth for business and personal purposes, including avoiding paying property taxes, the person said. The financial statements were developed by Mr. Trump’s accountant, the person said. The Wall Street Journal hasn’t seen those statements.
Mr. Cohen is expected to recount racist remarks Mr. Trump allegedly made to him, including instances in which Mr. Trump allegedly questioned the intelligence of African-Americans and criticized their lifestyle choices, the person said.
Mr. Cohen’s planned testimony comes 13 months after The Wall Street Journal first reported that Mr. Cohen paid $130,000 in October 2016 to former adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence after she alleged having a sexual encounter with Mr. Trump.
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Hmmm, it seems that if paying “hush money” is a crime, we have several members of Congress using taxpayer money to do the same thing and should also be investigated and tried.
Paying to hush money to conceal an affair is a crime? Even if true, it involves a private matter.
Who Trump slept with is none of Congress’ business. No federal crime is even being alleged here.
Much ado about nothing.
The Deplorables now have a green light to commit armed sedition if the Democrats ever get back in power...
“Mr. Cohen are you a convicted liar?”
“Are you going to prison as a result of your dishonesty?”
“When do you decide to lie about something, when it benefits you?”
“What prison are you going to for lying?”
“For how long are you going to prison for lying?”
“Is it easy for you to lie?”
“How can we tell you aren’t lying to us now?”
“Are you lying right now?”
Invade Venezuela, then rendition the rat.
Invite Mueller to release during Venezuela clean-up.
Then block most of it on NatSec grounds.
Declare massive draw down of troops and Venezuela finally safe to rejoin Intl Community at the GOP Convention.
Also there’s nothing stopping Trump from having Cohen investigated for revealing national secrets and participating in a conspiracy to defraud.
I’ve seen simple Bar Association complaints go off the rails and pick up criminal invests.
Just as the Left never forgave nor forgot that Nixon knocked off their guy, Alger Hiss they will never forgive President Trump for defeating their goddess, Hillary Clinton. The Left is now composed of two parts: The Democrat Party which includes a number of subsets is the Overt Left. The Covert, or Latent Left is the Republican Party.
Both Parties conspired to insure that the Usurper. the Traitor, the American hater, barrack obama was allowed to occupy the White House for eight years. His mission was to destroy the Republic totally and if not totally, then as much as was possible. As evidenced by history, he was highly successful. Under his generalship the Democrats corrupted or finished corrupting the education system, the legal and justice system, the medical system, the Armed Forces, the political system, and the media.
In fact Hannity likely has standing to initiate a Bar complaint.
Every Journalist and Newscaster is drooling and praying to satan that there is something they can run with.
“Doesnt everyone want a lawyer with this sense of fiduciary responsibility...”
Good point.
But at the sand time the Feds ran rough shod over any sort of privilege normally associated with lawyer client relationship.
In other words they acted completely lawlessly and intimidated Cohen, who clearly is a spineless weasel.
I can’t imagine where this POS rat thinks all of this is going. Where does he think he’ll work after all of this is finished? Who — on either side — would hire him for any work whatsoever knowing that he would flip and blab (or make things up) when the heat is on?
About the only job he’ll see after this is one at the local Waffle House. He’s committing professional suicide.
Why would one’s net worth have any effect on property taxes?
It is only supposed to endanger the negotiations with KIM and North Korea. . . .They will destroy this country rather than lose.
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Absolutely true.
Imagine that a political party in this country would destroy the country rather than help it in order to achieve revenge against Trump.
Anyone who tolerates a Dem is wrong. A FReeper told me last week to judge each person individually rather my saying the voters of MN or NY were bad for allowing babykillers to win, etc. Sorry, but what Dem is worth having around if they are traitors as well as babykillers. We are judged by the company we keep.
First: Those who are kind to the cruel will end up being cruel to the kind (Talmud)
Second: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil—Thomas Mann
Third: Because God is just I fear for my country.- Thomas Jefferson.
In fact Hannity likely has standing to initiate a Bar complaint.
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AOC: So what? When I tended bar and stole other employees’ tips and listened to slobbering drunks all night I heard plenty of bar complaints. Like, big deal,okay?
It’s obvious that the Mueller investigation was nothing but an illegal search and seizure operation.
Cohen can testify all he wants about supposed crimes, but it will go nowhere.
“Mr. Cohen, we’re you lying then, or are you lying now?”
5.56mm
Rashida Tlaib graduated from the same school.
“Yawn. Does anyone other than Adam Schiff care what this useless windbag has to say?”
You must be joking, or are oblivious to the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDR) currently prevailing in the world of the Loony Liberal Left. You will have wall to wall coverage on all major TV networks and front page articles in every liberal newspaper in the Country.
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