Michael Cohen’s Traveling Mendacity Show

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Michael Cohen’s Traveling Mendacity Show
He’ll have fun in prison.
American Spectator, Feb 27, 2019, David Catron

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And so the long day wore on — the Democrats gratuitously trashed the President and their GOP colleagues on the committee, while the Republicans questioned Cohen’s veracity and the gaping inconsistencies in his various statements under oath — including several obviously dishonest assertions that he made during his testimony before the committee on Wednesday. And there were a significant number of such questionable statements. Ironically, the most dangerous for Cohen was a transparent lie his lawyers let him put in writing in preparation for Wednesday’s hearing. As Jordan put it while waving the “Truth and Testimony” form in the air:

There are things he said today during several hours of questioning that just don’t add up.… He attested in his signed Truth and Testimony form that he did not have contracts with foreign government entities. Earlier he admitted to having consulting contracts with two foreign entities owned in part by foreign governments: BTA Bank of Kazakhstan and Korea Airspace Industries.

This obvious omission led Rep. Meadows to call for criminal charges. He tweeted:

I just entered a referral for criminal investigation of Michael Cohen, who violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act by illegally lobbying on behalf of foreign entities without registering.… Cohen talks about “blind loyalty.” His real blind loyalty? It’s to the almighty dollar.

And, while he can’t provide any convincing evidence that Trump colluded with Russia, or even provided the money to pay off Stormy Daniels, he seems to be willing to collude with the Democrats in the House. One could actually see Lanny Davis cringe when Cohen admitted that he had been working with the Democrat Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA), to get his testimony in tune with the party line for his Thursday hearing with that body. Cohen said, “I spoke to Mr. Schiff about topics that were going to be raised at the upcoming hearing.” To this damning revelation Jim Jordan exclaimed, “Whoa!”


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