{"id":35720,"date":"2019-02-28T00:36:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35720"},"modified":"2019-02-28T00:36:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T00:36:05","slug":"cohen-lays-it-out-there-for-all-to-see-and-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35720","title":{"rendered":"Cohen lays it out there for all to see and hear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michael Cohen, the most listened-to congressional witness in recent memory, offered a compelling statement today at the end of his day of interrogation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee.<\/p>\n

His remarks included this passage:\u00a0 “I did things and I acted improperly, at times at (Donald) Trump’s behest. I blindly followed his demands. My loyalty to Mr. Trump has cost me everything: my family’s happiness, friendships, my law license, my company, my livelihood, my honor, my reputation and soon my freedom. And I will not sit back, say nothing and allow him to the same to the country.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That sounds like a man who has lost damn near everything. Therefore, had nothing to lose today by testifying before the committee. He also had little, if anything, to gain<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Cohen is heading to the slammer in a few weeks. He’ll have to spend three years in federal prison for admitting to lying to Congress.<\/p>\n

He admitted to lying, but then added — rather ridiculously, in my view — that “I am not a liar.” Actually, he is<\/em> a liar. That, however, is not the point of the man’s testimony today. I believe he is capable of telling the truth and I also believe he did so today.<\/p>\n

Michael Cohen is about to surrender a great deal. His reputation<\/em> and his honor<\/em> have been shattered by what he has admitted to doing.<\/p>\n

That all makes me believe that what he said today about the president of the United States was the truth as he understands it. I do believe he and I understand the truth in the same manner.<\/p>\n\n

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Michael Cohen, the most listened-to congressional witness in recent memory, offered a compelling statement today at the end of his day of interrogation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee. His remarks included this passage:\u00a0 “I did things and I acted improperly, at times at (Donald) Trump’s behest. I blindly followed his demands. My … Continue reading Cohen lays it out there for all to see and hear<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2179,7694],"class_list":["post-35720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-gop","tag-michael-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35722,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35720\/revisions\/35722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}