By Jon Dougherty
While POTUS Donald Trump was understandably distracted earlier this week when Michael Cohen was the ‘star’ attraction in the Democrats’ clown show congressional hearings that began on Wednesday, now that he’s back from his second summit with Kim Jong-un, he’s taking aim at his onetime personal lawyer.
In particular, the president is bashing Cohen over the latter’s claim he had a ‘change of heart’ regarding his relationship with Trump following events at Charlottesville, where racially-tinged riots took place, and Helsinki, where the president allegedly gave away the United States to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
POTUS also criticized Cohen for electing to violate attorney-client privilege (Cohen was disbarred this week, by the way) by handing over financial documents that detailed some of Trump’s Deutsche Bank dealings, calling his House testimony “fraudulent and dishonest.”
Specifically, the president contradicted Cohen’s claims about losing respect for him after Trump allegedly became “the worst version of himself” after winning the presidency. POTUS said that Cohen circulated a “love letter to Trump” book manuscript to publishers recently and that the manuscript was actually submitted after Charlottesville and Helsinki.
Wow, just revealed that Michael Cohen wrote a “love letter to Trump” manuscript for a new book that he was pushing. Written and submitted long after Charlottesville and Helsinki, his phony reasons for going rogue. Book is exact opposite of his fake testimony, which now is a lie!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019
The president also noted that Congress should “demand the transcript of…Cohen’s new book” because “Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony.”
Congress must demand the transcript of Michael Cohen’s new book, given to publishers a short time ago. Your heads will spin when you see the lies, misrepresentations and contradictions against his Thursday testimony. Like a different person! He is totally discredited!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019
Cohen has been convicted of financial crimes unrelated to the “Russian collusion” narrative and — of course — lying to Congress.
Speaking of Russian collusion, that narrative is fading faster than Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s claims that she’s Native American. That’s why much of Cohen’s testimony this week dealt with disparaging Trump over his finances, including claims he would inflate or deflate his wealth depending on specific objectives such as getting on the Forbes’ richest list and paying taxes; Democrats are now shifting to that sphere, obsessing over the president’s tax returns and other financial dealings.
Not that the president isn’t wise to what’s going on.
Oh’ I see! Now that the 2 year Russian Collusion case has fallen apart, there was no Collusion except bye Crooked Hillary and the Democrats, they say, “gee, I have an idea, let’s look at Trump’s finances and every deal he has ever done. Let’s follow discredited Michael Cohen…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019
The president ended his tweet storm by demanding an end to the “corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt” and declared that “Republicans have been abused long enough.”
…and the fraudulent and dishonest statements he made on Wednesday. No way, it’s time to stop this corrupt and illegally brought Witch Hunt. Time to start looking at the other side where real crimes were committed. Republicans have been abused long enough. Must end now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 1, 2019
The president wasn’t the first — and he won’t be the last — to point out Cohen’s ‘inconsistencies’ during his testimony. In fact, two GOP lawmakers — Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina — have made a criminal referral to the Justice Department of Cohen’s testimony.
In yesterday’s hearing, Michael Cohen made at least six false statements.@RepMarkMeadows and I have referred Mr. Cohen to the Justice Department for perjury.
Looks like he lied to Congress. Again.https://t.co/q3cj0AywFU
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) February 28, 2019
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Maybe the clintonista has a family member of his on hot coals and if he does not trample Trump, they die. Off topic, but not totally, I understand a prostitute that helped expose trafficing has died – been removed? Anyone know if this is true and what is being done about it? Will she be swept under the rug, just another suicide?
When I heard Clintonista Lanny Davis was his lawyer I laughed out loud. If Cohen the rat has the goods on Trump then why is he going to prison?
Wouldn’t esteemed party member comrade kommissar Mueller grant him immunity if he had the proverbial smoking gun?
So Trump paid Stormdrain Daniels some money as a private citizen at the time, that is not even close to an impeachable offense.
That’s right, anyone that studies this matter realizes what a setup it is.
Also, people involved in “clearing” Hillary are/were involved in the coup to remove Trump.
Some of the same people were involved in clearing Manafort 13 years ago, then prosecuting him now.