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Michael Cohen’s Appears On Capitol Hill Today
Wall Street Journal Says Trump’s Former Lawyer Will Accuse The President Of Engaging In Criminal Conduct While In Office, Will Reveal Some Of Trump’s Unreleased Financial Statements, And Will Allege That Trump Has Deflated And Inflated His Net Worth Depending On The Situation
As we’ve heard many times, saying Trump is worth less than he says he is, may be the most unforgivable transgression possible.
So Republicans are working overtime, ahead of time, to slam Cohen. Mounting both a frontal assault, and a flanking maneuver, the idea being both to discredit Cohen as much as possible, (which is somewhat fair: he did lie about a lot of things to a lot of people), and also put as much as possible out on the table ahead of time so that whatever he says, it won’t seem like much anything new.
The frontal assault is taking a tried-and-true form for the Trump Administration: hurling deep insults, and making wild accusations. Even with Trump out of town in Vietnam, meeting with Kim Jong-un, they’ve got those bases covered. (And some on Fox are arguing Democrats are only engineering Cohen’s hearings to take some of the glory away from Trump…
