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THREAD: Cohen Testimony Takeaways (1/12) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/cohen…
Michael Cohen’s testimony reinforced just how open-and-shut the case for collusion has become. In fact, he testified—for the first time—that Trump knew about collusion. (2/12) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/cohen…
According to Cohen, Roger Stone called Trump on July 18 or 19 and told him Julian Assange said there would soon be “a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign.” (3/12) int.nyt.com/data/documenth…
Trump’s response: “Wouldn’t that be great.” (4/12) int.nyt.com/data/documenth…
That’s the first direct assertion that Trump personally knew about collusion with the Kremlin—and once again brings the spotlight to his infamous request a few days later for Russia to find Clinton’s “missing emails.” (5/12) nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/…
The Trump team could’ve alerted law enforcement, the intel community, or the American public. Instead, they kept up their secret contacts—at least 47 more before Trump took office. (6/12) themoscowproject.org/explainers/aid…
Cohen’s testimony also may put Trump on the hook for perjury. Trump reportedly told Mueller he hadn’t heard anything in advance from Stone about WikiLeaks, which Cohen directly contradicted. (7/12) cnn.com/2018/11/28/pol…
But that’s not all. Cohen testified that he was in the room when Trump Jr. gave Trump a heads up about the June 9 meeting, again directly contradicting Trump’s reported answers to Mueller. (8/12) int.nyt.com/data/documenth…
Cohen claimed Trump committed bank and insurance fraud by inflating his net worth, including in loan applications to Deutsche Bank. That gives House Dems plenty of reason to subpoena his financial records. (9/12) washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Cohen refuted Trump’s efforts to distance himself from Felix Sater, saying Trump’s claim in a 2013 deposition that he wouldn’t recognize Sater was at best misleading and, “at worst, lying under oath.” (10/12) washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Cohen confirmed that the president’s lawyers, including Jay Sekulow and Abbe Lowell, edited the 2017 written testimony in which he lied to Congress, and were partly responsible for its inaccuracies. (11/12) washingtonpost.com/world/national…
Finally, Cohen revealed there’s an ongoing investigation, saying he couldn’t discuss his last conversation with Trump because it was under investigation by SDNY. (12/12) usnews.com/news/politics/…
