Thread by @TimOBrien

Politico posts Michael Cohen's prepared testimony for his congressional hearing tomorrow. “I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.” politico.com/f/?id=00000169…

Trump "was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails." politico.com/f/?id=00000169…

Among the documents Cohen says he'll share: "A copy of a check Mr. Trump wrote from his personal bank account – after he became president - to reimburse me for the hush money payments I made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and prevent damage to his campaign."

Other documents: "Copies of letters I wrote at Mr. Trump’s direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his grades or SAT scores."

And Cohen says he will release "copies of financial statements for 2011 – 2013 that he gave to such institutions as Deutsche Bank."

Deutsche Bank matters, of course. My column from last November: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

"I lied to Congress about when Mr. Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower project in Russia. I stated that we stopped in January 2016. That was false – our negotiations continued for months later during the campaign.
Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress."

"In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there’s no business in Russia and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing."

"Trump knew of and directed the Trump Moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. He lied about it because he never expected to win the election. He also lied about it because he stood to make hundreds of millions of dollars on the Moscow real estate project."

“I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.”

And, Roger Stone, Wikileaks and ruh roh:

"He told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid."

"I am providing a copy of a $35,000 check that President Trump personally signed from his personal bank account on August 1, 2017 – when he was President of the United States...to reimburse me...for the illegal hush money I paid on his behalf."

"The sad fact is that I never heard Mr. Trump say anything in private that led me to believe he loved our nation or wanted to make it better. In fact, he did the opposite."