Tag Archives: Michael Cohen

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump’s former lawyer is returning to Capitol Hill for a fourth day of testimony as Democrats pursue a flurry of investigations into Trump’s White House, businesses and presidential campaign. Michael Cohen became a key figure in those investigations after turning on his former boss and cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. He was …

The New York Times reports: New York State regulators have issued an expansive subpoena to the Trump Organization’s longtime insurance broker, the first step in an investigation of insurance policies and claims involving President Trump’s family business, according to a person briefed on the matter. The subpoena was served late Monday on the company, Aon, one of the largest insurance …

The Wall Street Journal reports: An attorney for Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, raised the possibility of a pardon with attorneys for the president and his company after federal agents raided Mr. Cohen’s properties in April, according to people familiar with the discussions. Conversations among those parties are now being probed by congressional investigators, according to document requests …

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has blamed the Democrats’ decision to interview his former lawyer Michael Cohen on the same day as a meeting with Kim Jong-un for the fact that the North Korea summit ended with no deal. Last week in Hanoi, Trump and Kim met for the second time to try to negotiate a deal that would surrender …

Deadstate reports: Fresh off a long day and successful speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the Commander-in-Tweet continued this morning with Cohen attacks begun last night. That’s no doubt prompted by the Sunday morning news shows, which have focused relentlessly on Cohen’s testimony last week before the House Oversight Committee. After more than two years of Presidential Harassment, the …

Mediaite reports: On Saturday night, President Donald Trump insisted on Twitter that a manuscript by Michael Cohen was “just released.” He also suggested that the same manuscript would show Cohen’s “testimony was a total lie.” Yet, here’s the rub. It seems the manuscript that Trump wants politicians and pundits to believe over Cohen’s testimony may not even exist and certainly …

The Washington Post reports: Lawmakers are investigating whether President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was involved in any discussions about possible pardons — which they view as a potentially ripe area of inquiry into whether anyone sought to obstruct justice, people familiar with the matter said. Cohen has said publicly he never asked for — and would not accept …

Deadline reports: Saturday Night Live fired up this weekend’s cold open by taking on Michael Cohen’s jaw-dropping testimony earlier this week before members of the House. Ben Stiller returned to SNL as Cohen, and arrived with a statement for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that he admitted was polished by Hollywood writers. Former SNL regular and current Barry …

CNN reports: Rhode Island Rep. David Cicilline, who chairs the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, said that Sean Hannity’s latest comments suggest he has information about hush money payments made by Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, to keep the then-presidential candidate’s alleged extramarital affairs quiet in the days before the 2016 election. Trump later reimbursed Cohen for those payments. …

Talking Points Memo reports:  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of President Donald Trump’s most stalwart allies, creatively dismissed Michael Cohen’s evidence that Trump signed reimbursement checks for Stormy Daniels’ hush money payments from his personal account, saying that “people don’t write checks if they think they’re involved in a crime.” Sen. Lindsey Graham on copy of Trump check and Stormy …

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has claimed his former attorney Michael Cohen wrote “love letter to Trump” manuscript for a book he was hoping to write after working for the president during his rise to prominence and, eventually, the White House. Cohen revealed in an explosive public testimony on Wednesday that he had intentions to write a book at some …

“Cohen told Congress this week that he had a kind of road to Damascus experience. He was personally and morally offended by what his boss said in two occasions. First, after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, that was the summer of 2017, and later when he watched Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, about a year …

The Week reports: In an interview with Trump broadcast Thursday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Trump that Cohen and his lawyer had lied about Hannity being one of Cohen’s three legal clients. But Hannity suggested he believed Cohen’s earlier assertion about Trump’s involvement in a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. “I can tell you personally, …

The Daily Beast reports: According to Nielsen, CNN averaged 588,000 viewers aged 25-54 (a key demographic for advertisers) during the Cohen hearings, which lasted from 10 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. ET. MSNBC came in second in the 25-54 demographic, pulling an average of 452,000 viewers, while Fox News finished last with an average of 388,000. MSNBC finished first in overall …

Mediaite reports: The Atlantic‘s Edward-Isaac Dovere reports that President Donald Trump spoke to Gaetz this week while he was still in Vietnam for his denuclearization summit with Kim Jong Un. Trump used this phone call to vent over Cohen’s congressional testimony against him, and according to Dovere, Gaetz said “I was happy to do it” when the president brought up …

The New York Post reports: Two of President Trump’s top defenders on the House Oversight Committee issued a perjury referral to the Justice Department on Thursday seeking charges against Michael Cohen for allegedly lying during his high-profile public testimony. GOP Reps. Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking that he charge Cohen for …

NBC News reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz late on Wednesday said he had “apologized personally” to Michael Cohen after earlier in the week suggesting that the president’s former attorney was engaged in extramarital affairs. Gaetz posted what appeared to be a threat to reveal unsavory allegations ahead of Cohen’s public testimony. The congressman has since deleted the original tweet. He also …

Sean Hannity flipped out over Michael Cohen’s public testimony in typical fashion last night but managed to avoid mentioning that Cohen used to be his lawyer too. An excerpt via Media Matters: What we saw in Washington all day, just hours ago, nonstop, was a Democratic Party, a hyperventilating, hysterical media putting politics over country, with a political charade designed …

“By the end, you started feeling kind of bad for Michael Cohen, honestly. He’s not a genius, anyone who knows him will affirm that. He’s in his 50s now and he’s headed to prison. And that’s a long way from where he expected to be. Cohen showed up in Washington two years ago anticipating he’d be the kind of mover …

USA Today c: President Donald Trump criticized the congressional testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen as “shameful” and accused Cohen of lying “a lot.” Speaking to reporters at the end of his summit with North Korean President Kim Jong Un i, Trump said he watched some of Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday. “It …