CONGRESS/MEDIA/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump claimed Friday [3-1-19] that his former lawyer Michael Cohen shopped a book to publishers that portrayed Trump in a favorable light, vastly at odds with Cohen’s damning testimony to Congress. In a tweet, Trump said that Cohen’s manuscript was a ‘love letter’ to him and that Congress should demand the manuscript as evidence Cohen’s testimony this week was ‘fraudulent’ and ‘dishonest.’ Cohen told a House panel Trump was a ‘racist,’ ‘a con man’ and ‘a cheat.’ He testified that Trump used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about extramarital sex and lied throughout the 2016 election campaign about his business interests in Russia.”
–Associated Press, “Trump Claims Cohen Book Transcript Would Prove Ex-Aide Lied,” The New York Times online, March 1, 2019