2/27/2019

CONGRESS/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer on Wednesday [2-27-19] laid out a series of damning accusations against the president, presenting evidence of alleged lies and criminal conduct and expressing remorse over his decade of service to a man he described as unstable and racist. Michael Cohen testified to the House Oversight Committee that Trump directed him to lie about the president’s knowledge of hush-money payments, that Trump was informed about plans to dump Democratic emails during the 2016 presidential campaign and was kept in the loop about a Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on Hillary Clinton. The explosive comments from Cohen during a sharply partisan House hearing contradict Trump’s previous claims and expose Trump and some of his closest advisers to new legal and political trouble, potentially including impeachment, as Democrats used the hearing to draw out evidence of wrongdoing by the president.”

Andrew Desiferio and Darren Samuelsohn, “Michael Cohen alleges Trump created web of lies,” Politico, February 27, 2019 6:48 pm