After Three Hours, One GOP Rep. Broke Ranks And Asked Cohen A Real Question

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Most of Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing has been a partisan circus, with the likes of Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mark Meadows (R-NC) using their questioning time to put on a show of outrage and gotcha questions.

Three hours into the cacophony, Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) took a different tack, asking a question actually seeking information from Michael Cohen, the answer to which could have even proved damaging to President Donald Trump.

He set the stage for what could have been a show-stopping moment: “Mr. Cohen, I don’t know whether we should believe you today, but I’m going to ask you this one last question: what is the truth that you know President Trump fears most?” Amash asked.

Cohen seemed taken aback and shook his head for a while, concluding that it was a “tough question” that he didn’t have an answer for.

Amash also asked more about how Cohen says that Trump speaks in “code,” basically relaying his desires and marching orders through implication rather than directness.

The congressman concluded by asking about how Cohen plans to rehabilitate himself and his life.

Cohen expressed his gratitude at the Republican’s rogue line of questioning.

“Thank you for your questions,” Cohen said. “Some of the other ones really make it difficult to try to show some redemption, but I am, I am trying.”

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  1. Wow. Did Mitch “allow them to speak their conscious”? (He seems to command all Repubs these days)

  2. Avatar for ghost ghost says:

    Amash humanized Cohen. Jordan won’t be happy.

  3. Why is Justin Amash suddenly missing from the room?

    Off to the GOP re-indoctrination dungeon?

  4. Avatar for spin spin says:

    Several of us immediately noted this. and lets give him a name: Its Justin Amish. He was one of the honorable 13 who voted to end Trump’s fake “emergency deceleration”.

    If you have followed him, he has always been a rather honorable guy, looks shocked at what his fellow party members do at times. He is an actual, honest libertarian, and I think actually believes in American values, honesty, redemption, hard work, national good, etc, all of the “values” that the Right Wing TeaTurds and Jesus Freaks have sold out.

    I probably disagree with 90% of what Justin Amish believes from a policy stand point (the agreement being that he seems to be live and let live on most social issues) but he is the type of republican that we need a lot more of, if we are ever going to restore our democracy to what it should be.

  5. Well, might as well fully illustrate the catch-22 the GOPers are in, because they might as well have been sawing their own heads off with the attacks on Cohen, and while Amash surprisingly managed to show some signs of being a human being for a few minutes, all it did was show that they can’t really take that route either.

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