Trump's ex-lawyer Michael Cohen will testify at House Oversight Committee before entering prison

[George II]

Source: CNBC

Michael Cohen, the former personal lawyer and fixer for President Donald Trump, has agreed to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in February -- a month before beginning to serve a three-year prison sentence for a range of crimes which include ones related to Trump.

Cohen's planned Feb. 7 appearance is voluntary. He said Thursday it will give him the opportunity "to give a full and credible acount of the events that have transpired."

The hearing will come two-and-a-half months months after he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 about details of an aborted Trump real-estate project in Moscow, Russia.

Last week, the House of Representatives and its committees came under the control of the new Democratic majority, which has vowed to use its power to investigate a range of controversies involving the Republican Trump and his administration.

Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-to-testify-to-house-oversight-committee.html

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It will be an OPEN hearing. This is going to be good.

[PunkinPi]

1. In public!

Link to tweet

MICHAEL COHEN, President Trump's former fixer and personal attorney, will testify in PUBLIC before House Oversight on Feb. 7. Expect questions about his involvement in hush money scheme to silence Trump affairs, the Trump Tower Moscow project in 2016 and other controversies.

[olegramps]

13. This could prove to be a block buster with millions world wide watching.

Boy, oh boy, Stormy sure lived up to her name. I love her. She tells it like it is and makes no damn excuses how she makes her living. She sure is a breath of fresh air in the political smog that we a choking in. I would trust her before I would ever trust some Bible Beating sanctimonious back stabbing Republican bleached blond bitch. You know that lady and her sewing group who are having an affair with the shop keeper in the village and the preacher to boot. Ole mushroom Dick didn't want he was getting into.

Stormy isn't a tropical depression, she is a a full blown category five hurricane. Here is one ole fart with, my lady on my arm, that would buy her a drink anytime. In fact my lady would probably tell the bar keep to make that a double. You could choke on the hypocrisy of this gang.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The TRUTH shall set you free!

[Leghorn21]

3. Is it February yet?!???

Twenty-nine days from today

The countdown begins

Somebody please mention this news tidbit to MFLOSER45, STAT!!!!



Thanks for posting, G II!!

[SoCalNative]

4. Oh boy!

[duforsure]

5. This list will grow a lot

Of willing people who'll testify against trump and all the others involved before the House , and for the public to hear. trump will be damaged goods for donors , and voters, and other Congressional republicans . He has to know now his downfall is in the near future, and he can't stop it. Is he only sticking around now to raise funds for his legal bills?

[George II]

6. Michael Cohen's statement to CNN:

In a statement to CNN, Cohen said he agreed to testify "in furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers."

"I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired," Cohen said.

[watoos]

7. This is huge folks

This is OJ Simpson trial stuff. Trump being humiliated, brought down in publc. Trump has to be sick right now. Cohen’s testimony can be used for impeachment. I suggest Trump have a nervous breakdown.

[enid602]

29. Flee

I think Trump’s been offshoring Trump Organization money. He apparently hasn’t been paying suppliers. I think he got that $1billion brokerage fee for Putin’s sale of 19% of Rosneft to Qatar. I think Mueller will let him and his family leave the country if they do so quietly.

[Roy Rolling]

8. SAVE THE DATE!

Trump will see jail before Cohen. But Trump will resign before jail with a plea deal, Cohen will go free. The countdown to February 7th begins..

A man can dream, can't I? And if two people dream. And then three, and then four. But in the beginning, I gotta believe it could happen. It's plausible though not likely. But not impossible either.

[watoos]

9. I don't think it's a dream

It’ happening folks. No more sleepless nights. Feb. 7th is the beginning of the end.

[watoos]

10. Don Jr. will get his too.

[BigmanPigman]

11. Cohen wants revenge. The cult /base will start to turn on POTUS too!

Thank you Cohen! The fucking moron is shutting bricks right now and will be making dangerous distractions now due to it. Duck and cover. This will be like John Dean and Nixon. The Dems Congress is doing a great job right out of the gate. They don't need to wait for Mueller's report to finish and be released to turn the public against him. Seeing Cohen, hearing new info that no one has heard before and knowing that tRump knew about Russia and was working with them is like an early Christmas, birthday, July 4th, etc for the country as a whole.

[George II]

12. It will fittingly be like Independence Day!

[hibbing]

27. I am curious as to his motivation

I really don't understand why he would be doing it, unless as you stated, revenge.

Peace

[BigmanPigman]

28. Revenge is very motivating.

[herding cats]

14. The timing of the announcement stole Trump's border wall thunder, too.

That was a nice cherry on top of this news.

[erronis]

15. So, is Michael Cohen safe? Mob (russian/trump) hits? Promises of pardons and $$$$?

Why do I feel some trepidation about this happening as planned, and being a good thing?

[KPN]

19. Yeah, I feel trepidation of it actually being a good thing. Hopefully

my gut is wrong, but I can’t celebrate this at this point. Maybe after it happens, but not now.

[NastyRiffraff]

16. Oversight Chair is Elijah Cummings

Should be VERY interesting! Starting now to stock up on beer and popcorn.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

17. Popcohen, popcohen....get yer popcohen here!

[not fooled]

18. Ruh roh

What distraction will the orange turd concoct to distract from Cohen testifying?

[DallasNE]

20. Republicans Will Focus On His Lies

And attempt to show him to not be a reliable witness so he needs to bring documents with him to support his testimony.

[George II]

22. That's possible, and has been discussed on CNN and MSNBC since this broke. They're saying...

...that trump and republicans will claim he's a convicted liar, etc., but expect that Cohen will point out that he lied on behalf of trump as his lawyer.

Calling him a liar could backfire.

[Moostache]

21. I am predicting right now that a war will start somewhere on 06Feb2019...

Trump is not going to allow this to be the #1 story, not a chance...

[classof56]

23. Hey, Feb. 7 is my birthday!

Hadn't really been looking forward to it, but all of a sudden, I'm pumped. Go Cohen and hopefully, bye-bye dTrumph!

[Honeycombe8]

24. "And that's when I discover that revenge is sweet, as I sit there applauding in a front row seat!"

Sweet!

Feb. 7...put it on the calendar.

[DeminPennswoods]

25. The biggest thing will be Cohen telling Americans how

Trump operates, that he's personally involved in every decision and always knows what's going on. He's going to tell America that Trump, Manafort and Stone have been friends for decades, too. He's going to describe the roles the Trump kids and Weisselberg all play in the organization.

[watoos]

26. Myah Wiley, sp.

Just said on Ari that this could be bigger than Mueller’s report.

[MFGsunny]

30. Soooooooo ready for this one!