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Posted on Mon, May 20th, 2019 by Jason Easley
Adam Schiff Releases Michael Cohen Evidence And Nails Trump For Obstruction Of Justice
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has released Michael Cohens testimony and evidence that nail Trump for obstruction of justice.
In a statement provided to PoliticusUSA, Chairman Schiff said:
It is in this light that the Committee today releases the transcripts of two days of interviews of Trumps former personal lawyer Michael Cohen.
Cohens February and March 2019 testimony corroborate information previously received by the Committee, including the Trump Tower Moscow deal under negotiation throughout the 2016 election season by then-candidate Donald Trump. Cohen also presented significant and troubling new detail regarding the false statement that he provided to our Committee in August 2017 and for which, in part, he is now in prison. Since Cohens testimony, the Committee has already begun to follow up on information that Cohen provided related to attorneys for others involved in a joint defense agreement including Jared Kushner and Donald Jr. and Ivanka Trump to determine whether they aided in Cohens obstruction of the Committees investigation.
Cohen also testified that throughout the 2016 election, candidate Trump was actively kept apprised of a potential licensing agreement on a building to be erected in the heart of Moscow a deal for which Mr. Trump and his family would have personally earned millions and would have required active participation by the Kremlin to get final approval. Cohen testified that while Trump continued to falsely claim that he had no business deals with Russia, Cohen was actively pursuing the deal through summer 2016.
Trump and his associates sought to ensure that false narrative continued. Cohen testified Trump urged him to stay on message, which is theres no Russia, theres no collusion, theres no business deals. Cohen also said that the presidents personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, also directed him to stay on message, in part by encouraging Mr. Cohen to falsely claim to Congress that the Trump Tower Moscow deal ended in January 2016, before the Iowa caucuses. According to Mr. Cohen, attorneys for Kushner, Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and the Trump Organization also reviewed the statement before it was provided to Congress and raised no concerns with its false content.
The obstructive acts did not stop there. After the raid of Cohens hotel and office, Trumps legal team, according to Cohen, again interjected this time coaxing Cohen not to cooperate with authorities through implicit promises of a future pardon. Cohen testified that he had several conversations with Sekulow through July 2018 about pardons, and with an intermediary for the presidents personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. When Cohen no longer chose to toe the party line on President Trumps relationship with Russia, the president and his allies trained their fire on Cohen and his family through a campaign of public intimidation to silence his testimony before several congressional committees quintessential witness intimidation.
The public should judge for themselves both the evidence released today in conjunction with Cohens testimony related to Trump, his troubling relationship with Russia, and the efforts by Trump and those close to him to hide the relationship and potential business deals. The public also deserves the chance to judge Cohens credibility for themselves, including by examining some of the evidence he provided to the Committee.
The Committee will continue its investigation, continue to pursue additional evidence related to Cohens testimony, and present to the American people what we find.
But make no mistake, any attempt by the President, his associates or Administration to suborn perjury, obstruct our investigation or mislead the public will not be tolerated and will be exposed.
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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/05/20/adam-schiff-michael-cohen-evidence.html
Funtatlaguy
(10,887 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)What evidence or what information will cause the house to proceed? What is the bridge too far
gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)What's going to be the line in rhe sand? Have they even discussed that?
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)FirstLight
(13,364 posts)The more of this stuff that sees the light of day, the better.
NOW can we impeach? ...asking for a friend....
empedocles
(15,751 posts)The traitortrump defensive dikes are leaking more and more.
[The WH dike finger plugging group must be going nuts].
sheshe2
(83,928 posts)sheshe2
(83,928 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Let's see what he does at the rally tonight. Heh.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)pecosbob
(7,544 posts)but then what do I know...I'm not a member of the Federalist Boofer's Club.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Enough already.
JoeOtterbein
(7,702 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)......bypassing the usual procedure and giving the information to us directly. Thank you Adam.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But the irony is that those of us who would read such a thing, don't need to read it, because we already know! And those who need to, are not the sorts who would. But it's good to get it out there.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Destroying Cohens credibility, this would have a lot more value.