Tag Archives: Michael Cohen

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 …

“He paints a potentially grave picture for the president. If the conversation he says he overheard with Roger Stone is true, then the president lied under oath, because the president swore to the accuracy of his answers to the written questions from Bob Mueller, one of which was: ‘Did you speak to Roger Stone about Julian Assange?’ Answer: No. If …

CNN reports: The Florida Bar is investigating Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz after his threatening tweet last night about President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen. Francine Andía Walker, the group’s director of communications, said the Florida Bar received a number of calls and emails regarding the tweet after it posted. According to disciplinary guidelines for the group, which is the …

Vice News reports: Michael Cohen told the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that Donald Trump was given advance warning about the release of hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign. “Mr. Trump knew from Roger Stone in advance about the WikiLeaks drop of emails,” Cohen told the committee. “Mr. Cohen’s testimony is entirely untrue,” Stone wrote Wednesday in an emailed response …

This will be the end of the public testimony. Cohen will testify privately tomorrow before the House Intelligence Committee. The Cut reports: Representative Jackie Speier, a Democrat from California, asked Cohen how many times Trump had asked him to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf. What followed was a back and forth between the lawmaker and Cohen, where …

USA Today reports: Michael Cohen’s dramatic congressional testimony against President Donald Trump on Wednesday came loaded with lurid details, signed checks and partisan sniping – offering a level of spectacle that was unusual, even for Washington. But both Democrats and Republicans signaled that Cohen’s remarks before the House Oversight Committee – his first extensive public remarks about his role as …

The Week reports: Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday included an allegation that, during his presidential campaign, President Trump directed his former lawyer to write letters to Trump’s high school, colleges, and the College Board demanding that they not release his grades or SAT scores to anyone requesting them. Below is a letter to Fordham University, …

“Donald Trump is a man who ran for office to make his brand great, not to make our country great. He had no desire or intention to lead this nation, only to market himself and to build his wealth and power. Mr. Trump would often say this campaign was going to be the greatest infomercial in political history. He never …

The Guardian reports: Michael Cohen is due before the House committee at 10am. He shared his testimony with reporters last night and it is… unflinching. As well as those assertions of Trump being a “racist”, a “conman” and a “cheat”, Cohen will tell members of Congress that the president implicitly directed him to lie to Congress. Cohen will also provide …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen will testify Wednesday that Trump dodged military service in Vietnam with false claims about a medical condition. In his opening statement before the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Cohen will say that Trump told him there “was no surgery” for bone spurs and instructed him not to answer reporters’ specific questions …