Cohen is telling us about today's GOP.
By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer February 27 at 1:22 PM Michael Cohen’s testimony is as unprecedented as it is stunning: A direct witness to the actions of the president of the United States presented specific evidence of the president’s decades-old pattern of lying, financial fraud, intimidation and betrayal of his country for personal gain.
As for the substance of Cohen’s testimony, we got plenty of juicy nuggets: Cohen briefed Trump and his children 10 times about the Moscow deal during the campaign ; Cohen understood Trump’s tweets in advance of his testimony to be threats; Trump had other “catch and kill” stories in addition to ones we know about extending back before 2007 when Cohen went to work for him; the hush-money payments were discussed in the context of the campaign and included Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg,...
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