Thread by @DrDenaGrayson

Guess where I am.😎

#CohenHearing

I’m SO ready for this!!

#CohenHearing

Friends, I will be IN THE ROOM for the duration of the #CohenHearing. Follow me for LIVE updates throughout.🤗

It is a TOTAL zoo here. The Oversight Committee room is tiny, and the line is LONG!

#CohenHearing

.@MichaelCohen212 says that he wants to be @realDonaldTrump’s John Dean (who took down Nixon).

I’m SO ready for the #CohenHearing.🤗

My bag is filled with water and protein bars. I’m ready for a long and GLORIOUS day.

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Michael Cohen has entered the hearing room!😎

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Typical. @MarkMeadows is grandstanding and trying to derail the #CohenHearing before it gets started.🙄

The @GOP’s “plan” is to delay and stall Cohen uncovering the TRUTH about the #traitor Trump.🤬

I’m sitting RIGHT BEHIND Cohen (over his left shoulder), just behind his family/lawyer/entourage.🤗

#CohenHearing

Chairman @RepCummings takes control and kicks off the #CohenHearing, saying, “We are in search of the TRUTH!”🇺🇸

The @OversightDems kindly provided a hard copy of Michael Cohen’s opening statement and accompanying exhibits.🧐

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🔥Cohen provided Congress with copies of checks — one signed by @realDonaldTrump and the other signed by @DonaldJTrumpJr and @Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg — to reimburse Cohen for the ILLEGAL hush-money payoffs.

#Felony
#Conspiracy
#CohenHearing

🔥Cohen is sworn in and kicks off his testimony by calling his longtime boss, Trump, a “racist,” a “conman,” and a “cheat.”

He left out #traitor.🤬

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🔥Cohen confirms that Trump “knew of and directed the Trump🇷🇺Moscow negotiations **throughout the campaign** and LIED about it...because he never expected to win...and stood to make HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.”

#Treason
#TrumpRussia

🔥WHOA🔥

Cohen confirms that Roger Stone told Trump *in advance* that Assange planned to dump Democratic emails, stolen by #Russia🇷🇺.

Total #conspiracy against the U.S.🤬

#TrumpRussia
#RICO

💣BOOM💣

Cohen DIRECTLY implicates @realDonaldTrump and his son, @DonaldJTrumpJr, in a “criminal scheme” to commit campaign-finance FELONIES, as part of the hush-money payoffs.🔥

#CohenHearing

When Cohen asked Trump about his “medical” deferment from #Vietnam, Trump told Cohen that there was “no surgery...You think I’m stupid, I wasn’t going to #Vietnam.”

Of course, Trump claims that he “loves” our troops.🤬

#CadetBoneSpurs
@votevets

🔥TREASON🔥

Cohen says that Don Jr told Trump *in advance* about the 2016 #Russian🇷🇺lawyer meeting, where the #Russian🇷🇺government offered dirt on @HillaryClinton in exchange for dropping #sanctions.

#TrumpRussia
#Treason

⁉️WHAT⁉️

@GOP Rep. @mattgaetz — who THREATENED Michael Cohen via tweet the night before his testimony — is present at the #CohenHearing, even though he is NOT a member of the Oversight Committee.🤬

#WitnessTampering
#CorruptGOP

Here is @GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s threatening tweet to Cohen, in his disgusting attempt to intimidate Cohen the night before his Congressional testimony.🤬

#WitnessTampering
#CorruptGOP

It is unusual for Members of Congress to be present during the entirety of a long hearing. Members often attend at the very beginning, leave, and then return for their allotted time to ask questions.

Today, it’s PACKED, and NO ONE is leaving.🤗

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.@GOP Rep. Jody Hice tries to get Cohen to admit that wealthy Democrats, such as @TomSteyer, are paying for Cohen’s lawyer, @LannyDavis.

Cohen says that Davis is working for FREE.😎

After @Jim_Jordan completely mischaracterizes Cohen’s statements to portray him as a remorseless liar, Cohen spoke for ALL of us:

"Shame on you, Mr Jordan.”🔥

(Sorry I missed recording this myself. Thanks to @atrupar!)

When asked what made Cohen want to stop lying and tell the TRUTH, Cohen says: “#Helsinki (Trump’s #treason summit), Charlottesville, watching the daily destruction of our civility.”🔥

Cohen then pointed to a sign that the @GOP is displaying, “Liar, liar, pants on fire.”🙄

Quick break in the action. Just enough time for a quick bio-break and a selfie at Cohen’s witness table.😎

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Aaaaaaand....the #CohenHearing has restarted.😎

My view of the #CohenHearing.😎

🔥Cohen HAMMERS Jim Jordan and his @GOP cronies, because “not one question so far” has been asked by Republicans about Trump during the #CohenHearing.

#ComplicitGOP

h/t @atrupar

Here’s hoping that the @OversightDems ask Michael Cohen about Sean Hannity’s “deals.”😎

#Fixer
#CohenHearing

🔥WHOA🔥

@HarleyRouda asks Cohen about Trump’s relationship with “#Russian🇷🇺mobster, Felix Sater.”

Cohen says Sater was a senior advisor to Trump and had an office on the *same floor of Trump Tower as Trump*. Sater’s office eventually became COHEN’s office‼️

#TrumpRussia

🔥Cohen confirms he is cooperating with prosecutors on MULTIPLE ongoing investigations of Trump: "There are ongoing investigations currently being conducted that have nothing to do with this committee or Congress that I am assisting in."😎

h/t @atrupar

💣BOOM💣

Cohen was in Trump’s office and heard when Roger Stone informed Trump by phone that Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks planned to dump the Democratic emails, **stolen by #Russia🇷🇺**.

#Conspiracy
#TrumpRussia

Cohen just stared under oath that he’s “never been to #Prague, never been to the #CzechRepublic.🤔

#CohenHearing

Cohen acknowledges that he went to Europe in 2016 to visit his daughter, but denies meeting with any #Russians🇷🇺.

Unfortunately, @RepSpeier didn’t ask whether he’d met with any HACKERS.🧐

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1100829615721992192?s=21

🔥@RepSpeier: How many times did Mr. Trump ask you to THREATEN an individual or entity on his behalf?

COHEN: Quite a few times.

SPEIER: 50 times?

C: More.

S: 100 times?

C: More.

S: 200 times

C: More.

S: 500 times?

C: Probably. Over the 10 years.

Pathetic. Nearly every @GOP member has given back much of their time to Ranking Member @Jim_Jordan.🙄

This is one of the most important hearings EVER, and the #Republican members can’t think of *any* questions on their own⁉️

#CohenHearing

That’s me, sitting right behind Cohen.🤗

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Ridiculous. @RepChipRoy filibusters and goes on a rant about MS-13 and numerous other issues that have NOTHING to do with the #CohenHearing.🙄

Can’t the @GOP ask even ONE meaningful question⁉️

#ComplicitGOP

Said a quick hello to Michael Cohen during the break.😎

#CohenHearing

I *really* hope that the @OversightDems ask Cohen about the money that was funneled from #Russian🇷🇺oligarch Viktor Vekselberg (via his US subsidiary) into Cohen’s LLC.🤔

cc @RoKhanna

h/t @LincolnsBible
washingtonpost.com/world/who-is-v…

👏🏼AWESOME👏🏼

Rep. @StaceyPlaskett, asked that @GOP Rep. @mattgaetz be CRIMINALLY investigated for threatening Michael Cohen.

#WitnessTampering
#ComplicitGOP
#CohenHearing

Friends, the #CohenHearing will restart VERY soon.🤗

Michael Cohen has returned.😎

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Hey @MarkMeadows,

If you’re SO interested in Cohen’s payments from foreign entities, why don’t you ask Cohen about the money that he got from #Russian🇷🇺oligarch, Viktor Vekselberg, via his U.S. subsidiary⁉️

#TrumpRussia

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1100863835089580036?s=21

🔥@RoKhanna asked Cohen whether Trump directed a CRIMINAL #conspiracy to cover up the hush-money payoff to Stormy Daniels.

Cohen: “Yes.”

Cohen also **implicated Don Jr** and CFO Allen Weisselberg (who has #immunity) in the CRIMINAL scheme.😎

#TrumpCrimeFamily
#CohenHearing

🔥@RoKhanna: Are you telling us that @realDonaldTrump directed a criminal #conspiracy with his son (Don Jr) and the Trump Organization to commit financial #fraud?

Cohen: Yes.

Khanna: Is this being investigated by SDNY?

Cohen: I'd rather not say (yes😉)

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: To your knowledge was the President interested in reducing his local real estate tax bills?

Michael Cohen: Yes.

Cohen then described how Trump committed tax #fraud by deflating the reported value of his real estate.🔥

@AOC

🤣LOL...Cohen reveals that Trump’s tax returns are NOT under audit.

Cohen says Trump didn’t want to release his tax returns because he didn't want “an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts" going thru them to uncover his CRIMES‼️

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Right after Michael Cohen finished testifying, I shook his hand and thanked him. He had tears in his eyes.

#CohenHearing

I spoke with Chairman @RepCummings after the hearing to THANK him. He gave me a huge hug. I ❤️ this man.

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Thank you, Chairman @RepCummings. Our democracy feels a bit better today, thanks to you and your fellow @OversightDems.🇺🇸

#CohenHearing

My reaction when Cohen admitted that @realDonaldTrump committed insurance and tax #fraud.🤣

h/t @Agenthades1

My reaction when Cohen said that there might not be a peaceful transition of power if Trump loses next year.😳

#CohenHearing
h/t @atrupar

My reaction when Chairman Cummings said that he hoped that the #CohenHearing would change Donald Trump.🙄

EXPLOSIVE disclosure by Cohen that @realDonaldTrump committed insurance and tax #fraud, aided and abetted by @Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg, who got an #immunity deal.😎

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I barely held back tears during Chairman Cummings closing remarks. After the hearing, @RepCummings told me that every word came straight from his heart. It showed.💖

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