THREAD: Michael Cohen is the first member of Trump’s inner circle to plead guilty for lying to Congress, but he likely won’t be the last. Here are six others who have been credibly accused of lying to Congress: (1/8) nytimes.com/2018/11/29/nyr…
Jeff Sessions said in his confirmation hearings that he “did not have communications with the Russians” when he’d met with Sergey Kislyak at least three times during the campaign. (2/8) motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
Roger Stone told investigators he had no direct contacts with WikiLeaks. Turns out they exchanged several direct messages in the last month of the 2016 election. (3/8) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Donald Trump Jr. said he was not aware of foreign governments offering assistance to the Trump campaign, despite having taken meetings with individuals linked to the governments of Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE. (4/8) nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
Jared Kushner told Congress he didn’t know of anyone on the campaign who had communicated with WikiLeaks. Trump Jr. sent an email about his contacts with WikiLeaks to Kushner, who forwarded it to Hope Hicks. (5/8) theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Erik Prince said he had no formal contact with the Trump campaign, and that the meeting he attended in the Seychelles during the transition was an unplanned encounter. Both of those claims were false. (6/8) motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
And K.T. McFarland, who served on Trump’s transition team, said she wasn’t aware of the calls between Michael Flynn and Sergey Kislyak. Leaked emails and Flynn’s own guilty plea show that he told her about them himself. (7/8) thedailybeast.com/kt-mcfarland-t…
Given Trump and his team’s unprecedented dishonesty, there will almost certainly be others. The only question is how long it takes for the rest of America to find out. (8/8)
