Michael Cohen Drops Bombs on Trump

[_Kevin Graham]

I wonder if it will have its 15 minutes before getting drowned out about meaningless "coverage" of Trump's meeting with the N. Korean dictator.

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169 ... b99a790001

According to Cohen, Trump "knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails."

He is providing all sorts of documents such as:

"Copies of letters I wrote at Mr. Trump’s direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his grades or SAT scores."

Here are some choice quotations from his testimony:


"I lied to Congress about when Mr. Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower project in Russia. I stated that we stopped negotiating in January 2016. That was false – our negotiations continued for months later during the campaign."

"There were at least a half-dozen times between the Iowa Caucus in January 2016 and the end of June when he would ask me “How’s it going in Russia?” – referring to the Moscow Tower project."

"You need to know that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it. To be clear: Mr. Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project"


"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 once asked me if I could name a country run by a black person that wasn’t a “shithole.” This was when Barack Obama was President of the United States. While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid."

"As previously stated, I’m giving the Committee today three years of President Trump’s financial statements, from 2011-2013, which he gave to Deutsche Bank to inquire about a loan to buy the Buffalo Bills and to Forbes. These are Exhibits 1a, 1b, and 1c to my testimony. It was my experience that Mr. Trump inflated his total assets when it served his purposes, such as trying to be listed among the wealthiest people in Forbes, and deflated his assets to reduce his real estate taxes"

"I’m giving the Committee today an article he wrote on, and sent me, that reported on an auction of a portrait of Mr. Trump. This is Exhibit 3A to my testimony. Mr. Trump directed me to find a straw bidder to purchase a portrait of him that was being auctioned at an Art Hamptons Event. The objective was to ensure that his portrait, which was going to be auctioned last, would go for the highest price of any portrait that afternoon. The portrait was purchased by the fake bidder for $60,000. Mr. Trump directed the Trump Foundation, which is supposed to be a charitable organization, to repay the fake bidder, despite keeping the art for himself. Please see Exhibit 3B to my testimony."

"And it should come as no surprise that one of my more common responsibilities was that Mr. Trump directed me to call business owners, many of whom were small businesses, that were owed money for their services and told them no payment or a reduced payment would be coming. When I advised Mr. Trump of my success, he actually reveled in it."

"He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie to his wife about it, which I did. Lying to the First Lady is one of my biggest regrets. She is a kind, good person. I respect her greatly – and she did not deserve that. I am giving the Committee today a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer from me to Ms. Clifford’s attorney during the closing days of the presidential campaign that was demanded by Ms. Clifford to maintain her silence about her affair with Mr. Trump. This is Exhibit 4 to my testimony."

"As Exhibit 5 to my testimony shows, I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 – when he was President of the United States – pursuant to the cover-up, which was the basis of my guilty plea, to reimburse me – the word used by Mr. Trump’s TV lawyer -- for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf. This $35,000 check was one of 11 check installments that was paid throughout the year – while he was President."

"When I say conman, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores. As I mentioned, I’m giving the Committee today copies of a letter I sent at Mr. Trump’s direction threatening these schools with civil and criminal actions if Mr. Trump’s grades or SAT scores were ever disclosed without his permission. These are Exhibit 6."

"The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite. When telling me in 2008 that he was cutting employees’ salaries in half – including mine – he showed me what he claimed was a $10 million IRS tax refund, and he said that he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving “someone like him” that much money back."

"During the campaign, Mr. Trump said he did not consider Vietnam Veteran, and Prisoner of War, Senator John McCain to be “a hero” because he likes people who weren’t captured. At the same time, Mr. Trump tasked me to handle the negative press surrounding his medical deferment from the Vietnam draft. Mr. Trump claimed it was because of a bone spur, but when I asked for medical records, he gave me none and said there was no surgery. He told me not to answer the specific questions by reporters but rather offer simply the fact that he received a medical deferment. He finished the conversation with the following comment. “You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to Vietnam.”

[_canpakes]

Lol. Trump is the embodiment of virtually every complaint - real or imagined - that Republicans have made about their Democratic counterparts over the last three decades.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

The document linked by Politico should put to rest any discussion about this President. He should be removed from office and serve time.

- Doc

[_Dr. Shades]

Forgive me, but . . . if he lied the first time he testified, how can we be sure he's not lying now?

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

Forgive me, but . . . if he lied the first time he testified, how can we be sure he's not lying now?

You should read the document linked above, and then reassess what you posted. Also. You know. Do a little research on the issue like, I dunno, going to Drudge Report and seeing Trump's signed payoff check that's literally posted on the site in plain view.

- Doc

[_EAllusion]

Forgive me, but . . . if he lied the first time he testified, how can we be sure he's not lying now?

His key claims are backed up by documentary evidence. He has the receipts, literally. Also, “The President’s decade plus personal fixer was a criminal liar” is not a great defense of the President’s propriety.

[_Dr. Shades]

Forgive me, but . . . if he lied the first time he testified, how can we be sure he's not lying now?

You should read the document linked above, and then reassess what you posted.

I did. It says that he would attach documentation, but there was no actual documentation attached or scanned.

[_Doctor CamNC4Me]

One of the documents provided to the committee is a copy of the $130,000 wire transfer from Cohen to Daniels' attorney. He claims he was directed by Trump to use funds from his "Home Equity Line of Credit to avoid any money being traced back to him that could negatively impact his campaign."

The second document related to the hush-money payments is a copy of a $35,000 personal check from Trump to Cohen dated August 1, 2017, which was well into the first year of Trump's presidency. Cohen alleges that he was paid "11 check installments" related to repaying Cohen.

[_Kevin Graham]

The sad thing is that this is all small potatoes when compared to what we already know about Trump.

The sadder thing is that this will get blown under the rug and forgotten by, oh, I'll say 4pm on Friday.

[_Chap]

Yes, but Benghazi and emails.

Gotcha there, you hypocrite libtards!!!