House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Wednesday that the portion of Michael Cohen’s prepared testimony about President Donald Trump’s knowledge of the WikiLeaks DNC email dump is the most “significant” in the document, arguing that it shows that Trump was “dishonest with the country” about “stolen Russian documents.”
Schiff also said that the check Cohen is prepared to show with Trump’s signature is also notable.
“He also offers some pretty solid corroboration in terms of the hush money payments if these checks are, in fact, authentic,” he said on CNN.
The chairman argued that Cohen is fairly credible.
“If his only motivation, as the President suggests, is to reduce his sentence or to incriminate the President, then you’d expect him to make a more full throated claim against Donald Trump,” Schiff concludes. “So I find on the face of it, it’s a credible account — certainly that was the conclusion of the special counsel — but the proof is in the pudding.”
In his remarks, Cohen wrote that he was present during a call between Trump and Stone when Trump reacted approvingly to Stone’s news that WikiLeaks would dump Democrats’ hacked emails in coming days. Cohen also said that Trump reimbursed him for the Stormy Daniels hush money payments from his personal account over multiple months during his presidency.
Cohen is due before the House Oversight Committee at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday morning, where he will be grilled about the bombshells dropped in his prepared testimony.
OK, it is time to begin the impeachment process, particularly if there is any corroborating evidence. I expect that Mueller has that and this coming out now will hinder Barr from holding it back when he files his report.
It’s a beautiful day for America. Our national nightmare of corruption and ineptitude is nearing an end. God bless this country as we once again find our moral direction and rid ourselves of this rotten family!
I do hope this is one of those times Cohen had his recording device switched to “on”. That would be game, set, and match.
Trump’s entire legal team is panicking
To bad the Thursday house intel meeting with Cohen is not televised. That is going to be the meaty one… especially with republicans giving Cohen the green light to lie before his last appearance.