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Cohen to Testify That Trump Engaged in Criminal Conduct While in Office
WSJ ^ | 26 Feb 2019 | Rebecca Ballhaus and Warren P. Strobel

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cohen; demlies; fakenews; stormydaniels; trump; trumplawyer
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Yawn. Does anyone other than Adam Schiff care what this useless windbag has to say?
1 posted on 02/26/2019 3:04:58 AM PST by oblomov
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To: oblomov

Skell trying to save his own skin


2 posted on 02/26/2019 3:05:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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Making racist remarks, avoiding property taxes, inflating or deflating net worth for business and personal purposes, these all sound like things many Democrats are likely quite familiar with doing themselves.


3 posted on 02/26/2019 3:07:47 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: oblomov

Doesnt everyone want a lawyer with this sense of fiduciary responsibility...


4 posted on 02/26/2019 3:09:41 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: oblomov

Doesnt everyone want a lawyer with this sense of fiduciary responsibility...


5 posted on 02/26/2019 3:09:46 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: oblomov

So he was aggressive on property taxes and questioned the lifestyle choices of some .African Americans.

Basically that means he’s not stupid.

I am aggressive on all taxes and openly question the lifestyle hooves of many people


6 posted on 02/26/2019 3:13:34 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: oblomov

Just remember that this SLIME BUCKET LAWYER TAPED TRUMP!! What a CREEP!


7 posted on 02/26/2019 3:19:03 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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conehead's already a proven and admitted liar. So which lies are lies and which lies are not?

I don't know what the demoncraps are all excited about. A non-credible witness is just that. Always.

8 posted on 02/26/2019 3:19:11 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: oblomov

Nowhere in that excerpt was an illegal act mentioned, and I am not going to the source to look for such a mention. It looks like a misleading headline to me, since I doubt that the rest of the article describes an illegal act either.


9 posted on 02/26/2019 3:19:41 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: oblomov

He plead guilty to, among other things, lying.

So we’re now supposed to take his utterance as the unvarnished truth?

One more thing...

Cohen was not Trump’s only lawyer. He had had many. The press always makes it sound like Cohen was it, the one, and Trump was there scheming with him, like Holmes and Watson. Whereas in many cases, a Trump underling would dispatch orders to Cohen, who then did his lawyer things per overall general orders, or even vague ideas.


10 posted on 02/26/2019 3:21:09 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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Cohen was involved in some sort of scam with Taxi Medallions in NYC presumably via his father-in-law? Mueller is thought to be threatening him with prison for life unless he, Cohen, testifies against the President.

And then there are issues of Attorney-Client privilege, of a hooker who has lost in court, of a special prosecutor (Mueller) who has himself run afoul of the law ...

And Trump holds the FISA declas over their heads and so much more.

This is all about delay, delay, delay to 2020 while projecting onto Trump what they themselves are guilty of. These people are desperate.


11 posted on 02/26/2019 3:25:33 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Cohen graduated from one of the worst law schools in the country. He wasn’t hired for his legal skills.


12 posted on 02/26/2019 3:31:00 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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>>> a person familiar with his planned testimony before Congress said. <<<

Journalism is dead. Fake News.


13 posted on 02/26/2019 3:32:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: oblomov

Lying, liars, lie.


14 posted on 02/26/2019 3:32:35 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I saw that too. More anonymous sources nonsense.


15 posted on 02/26/2019 3:34:37 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: oblomov

If Michael Cohen testified that the sun rose in the east and set in the west I would head out to San Diego to watch the sunrise over the Pacific Ocean.


16 posted on 02/26/2019 3:40:28 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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>>And Trump holds the FISA declas over their heads and so much more.

Which I believe Trump is waiting to release in 2020 for maximum dramatic/political effect.


17 posted on 02/26/2019 3:57:16 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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so why hasn't mulehead done anything about it then???
18 posted on 02/26/2019 4:06:22 AM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: FreedomPoster

This is going to be said while Trump is out of the country, meeting Kim.

Ergo, he won’t have much opportunity to respond.

Right...


19 posted on 02/26/2019 4:06:23 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: oblomov

“...publicly accuse the president of criminal conduct while in office related to a hush-money payment to a porn star...

1.) Cohen does not have the authority to decree a matter criminal.

2.) Paying hush money is not a crime.

3.) All politicians spend money to effect an election, to use the prosecutor’s language.


20 posted on 02/26/2019 4:06:36 AM PST by odawg
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