Michael Cohen opens Donald Trump to potential legal risks with damaging new allegations

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Some experts believe a sitting president can be charged with crimes committed before taking office — and Democrats will certainly pursue issues raised by Cohen

Michael Cohen unfurled a series of accusations against his former boss Donald Trump in a day of testimony before Congress, including assertions that may pose additional legal peril for the president.

Cohen said he had only “my suspicions” that Trump colluded with Russians who sought to help him win the election, the central question in the investigation that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is close to completing.Cohen testified that Trump provided different information to different entities depending on his objectives. Inflating one’s holdings to obtain a bank loan or deflating them when dealing with the Internal Revenue Service could be federal crimes.

“You have a history of lying over and over and over again,” Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Oversight panel’s top Republican, told Cohen. He suggested Cohen had grown bitter because Trump didn’t give him a White House job after the election, an assertion Cohen denied. Other Republicans suggested he was angling for a book deal. Cohen acknowledged he’d welcome an offer.

“The fact that Cohen is still actively cooperating with federal prosecutors — even after he’s been sentenced — about other investigations is significant,” Fischetti said. “Cohen has been with Trump for more than a decade and knows of all these deals he’s done and all of his financial dealings. He’s in a prime position to … have access to documents of a criminal nature.”

“We would provide them with these copies so they would understand that the premium, which is based sometimes upon the individual’s capabilities to pay, would be reduced,” Cohen said.

 

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Pot meet kettle. Now we are taking this guys word? he's going to prison and he was just disbarred and this guy is credible? Trump hate is strong.

Trump has been living with “potential legal risks” for the past four years by now. He can live with this “potential risk” too.

What a rat this lying fool is.

Honestly, how stupid do you think people are?

Lol he perjured himself again. Why is the far left media so blind?

what a liar

They were the same crapshell allegations of these past two years: Russia & Racism The allegations made of thin air Dramatized in such theaters of the absurd directed by DEMs

he opened his statement with “trump is a racist”... how credible is he?

Garbage news .Report on Canada instead of nashing Trump

The value of statements made to Congress by a guy who was just disbarred in NY for lying to Congress could be questionable...

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