Trump was probably too preoccupied on Wednesday to comment on Michael Cohen’s seven-hour marathon testimony before the House Oversight Committee, but now that he’s back on US soil, the president isn’t holding back.
Taking aim at Michael Cohen’s insistence that he had a change of heart regarding his relationship with the president after Charlottesville and Helsinki, as well as the former Trump lawyer’s decision to break attorney client privilege and turn over financial documents detailing some of Trump’s dealings with Deutsche Bank (which Maxine Waters once described as“the biggest money laundering bank in the world”), Trump slammed his longtime employee for his “fraudulent and dishonest” testimony.
Contrary to Cohen’s claims that he had lost all respect for the president since Trump became “the worst version of himself” after taking office, Trump claimed that Cohen had circulated a “love letter to Trump” book manuscript to publishers not all that long ago – in fact, the manuscript was submitted, Trump said, after Charlottesville and Helsinki. (Read more)