Thread by @bradheath

It's pretty remarkable to step back and look at he breadth of the investigations around President Trump that largely trace back in one way or another to an idle boast about hacked emails. It's cascaded to Trump, his family, his business and more.

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It's hard to know how much of Michael Cohen's testimony to believe. His credibility was the central issue Republicans battled over. But his description of expansive criminal investigations suggests that might not matter - those are unlikely to rest on him alone.

Some of Michael Cohen's most explosive testimony - that the president implicitly encouraged him to lie - was on a subject about which he also provided information to special counsel Robert Mueller.

Prosecutors described his information as "relevant and truthful."

Michael Cohen's testimony highlighted a web of federal investigations so broad it raises the question of whether anyone in Trump's business or political orbits is safe from federal scrutiny.
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