Thread by @Monaheart1229

"[GOP] knew they had to eviscerate Cohen by any means..if he was right, it would not only badly hurt Trump, it would continue to take down the GOP & paint it as a party that aided & abetted immoral, criminal or unconstitutional behavior."
thehill.com/opinion/white-…

2-"..Republicans, with their hair on fire because they realize just how damning Cohen’s testimony is to Trump, and therefore to their party, were desperate to paint Cohen as a liar solely out for himself who cannot be trusted to tell the truth. The irony is almost comical, and

3-"the level of hypocrisy is absurd. Republicans are insulting Cohen with the same adjectives that can be so easily placed before Donald Trump's name. Don’t they understand that?If they don’t, they are either naïve or obtuse. Neither is a good look for a party that used to have

4-"clear convictions of patriotism, love for the Constitution and that would always put country over party. Those days are long gone..One of the most compelling moments of the hearing was when Cohen berated the Republican members of Congress who were insulting him by saying that

5-"they were all now doing what he did for the last 10 years (covering for Trump) and that his punishment would be theirs, too, if they didn’t change paths..Cohen had nothing to gain by lying. And Trump has everything to lose by Cohen telling the truth. That is why Trump and

6-"Republicans were so desperately trying to shut Cohen down, whether by tweeting disgusting personal threats to Cohen and his family or by trying to dissect him at every turn during his testimony." ~excerpts, Politico, 2/28/19