Trump’s fixer, former attorney (he’s been disbarred) Michael Cohen will testify before Congress, publicly and in closed sessions, and over the next three days. Now Politico has a story out claiming that he will provide Congress with a document proving Trump broke the law in his payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels:
Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, plans to offer up a document to lawmakers that he claims will show the president engaged in criminal conduct related to a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, according to a person familiar with his planned congressional testimony.
The person said the document will refute a claim by Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, that Cohen used a $35,000 a month retainer from Trump as reimbursement for paying off Daniels. Cohen — who will soon report to prison for a three-year sentence tied to a litany of tax fraud and lying charges — is scheduled to appear Wednesday in a public House hearing, and will also testify privately on Tuesday and Thursday before Senate and House investigators.
So, tomorrow will be a potential game changer. Either Cohen delivers the goods (I assume he will discuss the document at his public testimony), and we have a much weakened Trump in the general who will be dogged by this issue alone, even if somehow nothing is to come of all the other investigations, or he doesn’t, and at least we can forget about this creep, happy in our knowledge that he is going away for a good 18 months, at least.