Why Would the Democrats Pick Michael Cohen, a Convicted Liar, as Their 'Impeach Trump' Poster Boy?

MICHAEL COHEN IS A BUM, A REAL AMBULANCE-CHASING, BLUE SUEDE SHOE BUM OF A LAWYER. He blames President Trump for "making him" do things that any half-decent lawyer would have counselled his client against -- we do not even mention counselling himself, a lawyer, against such actions. Instead, Cohen admits that he permitted and did whatever his client wanted -- again, we do not speak of how much of what he told Congress this week is bold-faced lies. Keep in mind, this is a lawyer -- although now rightly disbarred -- telling Congress that he knew what he was doing was wrong but he kept doing it. That is not what lawyers are paid for. And, it violates just about every canon of ethics for lawyers ever written. • • • THE DEMOCRAT PARTY JOINS MICHAEL COHEN IN THE GUTTER. American Thinker's Patricia McCarthy said it best on Thursday : "If their behavior at the Kavanaugh hearings that they engineered with a hoax accusation did not convince people of the craven unscrupulousness of the Democratic Party, the clown show Democrats put on Wednesday certainly will. While the President is out of the country on a crucial foreign policy mission, the Democrats colluded with Tom Steyer and lowlife Clinton operative Lanny Davis to once more try to convince the public that Trump should be impeached. To that end, they brought the loathsome Michael Cohen, already convicted of lying to Congress and a host of other financial crimes, to testify to 'crimes' committed by the President. Cohen admitted that he was prepped for the hearings by Trump-deranged Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, and Davis. That Cummings allowed this to happen is a sad commentary on his lack of respect for his own committee and the House....Cohen spent the day lying again and again and contradicting himself over and over....He has been clearly shown to be a relentless self-promoter, a greedy status-seeker, and a liar. Nothing he says can be trusted or believed. His oath means nothing. He lacks any hint of ethical sense. He admitted to taping numerous clients without their knowledge and at the hearing quickly agreed to hand those tapes over if asked, even without those clients' waived privilege!....The entire spectacle is proof that the Democratic Party, as many have observed, hates this President so much that its members are willing to do great harm to the nation. Every Democrat who participated in this pathetic display should be forever ashamed of himself for all of them have sullied the offices they hold." • What about Lanny Davis -- the Bill-and-Hillary "fixer" who has been their hatchet-man since the Monica Lewinsky affair. Patricia McCarthy has some choice words for Lanny and the Clintons, too : "That Lanny Davis, a man wholly beholden to and joined at the hip with the Clintons, was able to make this happen is bad enough. He likely wrote Cohen's opening and closing speeches. That Michael Cohen is the Democrats' tool is contemptible....What makes all this a sham characterized by Democrat hypocrisy is the fact of forty years of Clinton criminality still being swept under the rug. While the Clintons were using their positions of power to enrich themselves with a level of greed that makes Cohen's look like kid stuff, they were never investigated or charged. Everything the Clintons ever did was for themselves. Hillary's stint as Secretary of State was just a four-year get-rich-quick scheme. The $145M she took for authorizing the sale of US uranium to Russia was only one of her illegal ventures to pad her personal wealth. The Clintons robbed Haiti of billions meant for rebuilding that devastated nation; Chelsea got a fancy wedding out of that pile of dough." • McCarthy rightly points out : "The DC swamp is indeed filled with scoundrels, nearly all of them members of the media, the Democratic Party, and the intelligence institutions that were weaponized by Obama. Comey, McCabe, Brennan, and Clapper and the crowd of miscreants at the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ all colluded to bring down Trump the candidate, then Trump the President with wholly fabricated accusations, illegal surveillance, and falsified material. Then there are the usual suspects -- Schiff, Nadler, Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, etc. -- who intend to see the President impeached no matter what it takes. Each of them has likely committed much more serious crimes -- financial, ethical, and constitutional -- than Trump ever did. Not one of them has ever, in all their collective years in office, accomplished a fraction of what Trump has done for the good of America in two short years." • • • AMERICANS CAN BE PROUD OF THE REPUBLICANS ON THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. The Republicans on the committee were truth stars, especially ranking Committee member Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows. • Jim Jordan's opening speech got it right, calling the Committee hearings a feeble attempt by people who hate Trump so much that they have bled their own characters dry of any shred of class or love of country. Jordan in his opening statement tore into the Democrats for calling Cohen to testify, emphasizing Cohen’s guilty plea to previously lying to Congress. “The first announced witness for the 116th Congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress,” Jordan said. Jordan also accused Democrats on holding the hearing so they can later try to impeach the President. At the start of Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearing on the testimony of convicted criminal and disbarred former attorney to President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) claimed that CNN obtained Cohen's statement and exhibits before the committee did. Representative Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) had objected to the start of hearing, on the grounds that committee rules require that members be given any testimony-related materials 24 hours prior to the meeting, but some were not provided until just before the hearing : 'Rule 9(f) of the committee rules say that any testimony from your witness needs to be here 24 hours in advance. The committee, the chairman knows well that, at 10:08, we received the written testimony. And, then we received evidence, this morning, at 7:54. Now, if this was just an oversight, Mr. Chairman, I could look beyond it. But, it was an intentional effort by this witness and his advisors to, once again, show his disdain for this body. And, with that, I move that we postpone this hearing.' Representative Jordan repeatedly asked to be recognized while Meadows sparred with Committee Chairman Representative Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and, when called upon, made the claim : 'You know who had this material before all the members of the committee? CNN had it before we did. CNN had the exhibits before we did.' 'Yeah, well, the vote is on the motion to postpone,' Cumming replied, dismissing Jordan’s comment and moving on." Actually, Cummings admitted the Committee received the testimony “late last night.” The Democrat-controlled Committee voted to reject the GOP call to postpone. In his opening statement, Cummings acknowledged that Cohen “repeatedly lied in the past,” calling it an “important factor we need to weigh.” He said if Cohen doesn’t tell the truth, he’ll refer him to the Justice Department for prosecution. But Cummings said the hearing is important for understanding the President’s past actions, saying “the days of this committee protecting the President at all costs are over.” • It was Meadows who tweeted : "As Michael Cohen speaks, think about how remarkable it is : a man convicted of LYING to Congress is now appearing before Congress again...just weeks later. Invited by the Democrats as their star 'witness.' And all the while, the left hails his every word as gospel." Representative Meadows hit Michael Cohen with a criminal referral accusing him of violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) while Cohen was still testifying. During the hearing, Meadows asked Cohen about his apparent failure to list his contracts with foreign entities when he positioned himself as a gatekeeper to the Trump administration, including one company that reportedly paid Cohen $1.2 million to provide advice on dealings with the administration : "Meadows: 'I’m going to back to the question I asked before with regards to your false statement that you submitted to Congress. On here it was very clear that it asks for contracts with foreign entities over the last two years. Have you had any foreign contracts with foreign entities whether it’s Novartis or the Korean Airline or KazakhstanBTA bank? Your testimony earlier said that you had contracts with them. In fact, you went into detail.' Cohen: 'They are not government agencies, they are privately and publicly traded companies.' Meadows: 'Did you have foreign contracts over the last two years?' Cohen: 'Foreign contracts?' Meadows: 'Contracts with foreign entities?' Cohen: 'Yes.' Not long after, Meadows tweeted the following -- while Cohen was still testifying to the committee : '@RepMarkMeadows I just entered a referral for criminal investigation of Michael Cohen, who violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act by illegally lobbying on behalf of foreign entities without registering.' " During Cohen’s hearing, Meadows chastised Cohen for not listing his “foreign contracts” on a "Truth and Testimony" form he was required to fill out prior to his hearing, and called it a “criminal offense. This is just one more example of you skirting the truth,” Meadows said to Cohen. Cohen explained that he reviewed the form with his legal counsel, and interpreted the directions differently, but would amend the document before the end of the day if necessary." AND, Meadows grilled Cohen about his characterization of the President as "racist" and asked for proof. Cohen said there were no black executives at the Trump organization. Meadows began by pointing out that Lynne Patton, who served as vice president of the Eric Trump Foundation, who was in attendance at the hearing, said she would never work for someone she felt was racist : "MEADOWS: Do you know Lynne Patton? COHEN: Yes, I do. MEADOWS: I asked Lynne to come today in her personal capacity to actually shed some light -- how long have you known Ms. Patton? COHEN: I’m responsible for Lynn Patton joining the Trump organization in the job that she currently holds. MEADOWS: I’m glad you acknowledged that, because you made some very demeaning comments about the President that Ms. Patton doesn’t agree with. In fact, it has to do with your claim of racism. She says that as a daughter of a man born in Birmingham, Alabama, that there is no way that she would work for an individual who was racist. How do you reconcile the two of those? COHEN: As neither should I as the son of a Holocaust survivor." Meadows also asked whether Cohen had tape recordings of Trump saying racist things. Cohen, who admitted to taping the President before, said no. "MEADOWS: But Mr. Cohen, I guess what I’m saying is, I’ve talked to the President over 300 times. I’ve not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private. So how do you reconcile it? Do you have proof of those conversations? COHEN: I would ask you to ask-- MEADOWS: Do you have tape recordings of those conversations? COHEN: No sir. MEADOWS: Well you’ve taped everybody else. Why wouldn’t you have a tape of -- COHEN: That’s also not true, sir. That’s not true. MEADOWS: You haven’t taped anybody? COHEN: I have taped individuals. MEADOWS: How many times have you taped individuals? COHEN: Maybe 100 times over 10 years? MEADOWS: Is that a low estimate? Because I’ve heard it’s over 200 times. COHEN: No, I don’t think. I think it’s approximately about 100 from what I recall, but -- MEADOWS: Do you have proof? Yes or no? COHEN: I do. MEADOWS: Where’s the proof? COHEN: Ask Ms. Patton how many people who are black are executives at the Trump Organization, and the answer is zero. MEADOWS: Mr. Cohen, we can go through this. I would ask unanimous consent that her entire statement be put in the record. 'Without objection,' Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said." • • • DID COHEN PERJURE HIMSELF AGAIN THIS WEEK? Fox News's Brooke Singman reported on Thursday : "Texas Republican Representative Will Hurd says he does not believe anything new will be learned from the House Intelligence Committee’s closed door meeting with former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. House Oversight Committee Republicans on Thursday referred ex-Trump attorney Michael Cohen to the Justice Department for alleged perjury, claiming he lied during sworn testimony before the panel a day earlier about a number of issues including his ambitions to work in the Trump administration and contracts with foreign entities. Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Representative Mark Meadows, R-N.C., penned a letter Thursday to newly sworn-in Attorney General William Barr, citing evidence that Cohen 'committed perjury' during his hearing before the committee on Wednesday. • Here are excerpts from the Jordan-Meadows letter to AG Barr : "We write to refer significant evidence that Michael D. Cohen committed perjury and knowingly made false statements during his testimony before an Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. While testifying under oath, Mr. Cohen made what appear to be numerous willfully and intentionally false statements of material fact contradicted by the record established by the Justice Department in United States v. Cohen....Mr. Cohen’s testimony before the Committee at times was in direct contradiction to assertions contained in pleadings authored by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY.) There are other instances in which Mr. Cohen’s statements to the Committee were immediately contradicted by witnesses with firsthand knowledge of the subject matter....This point -- Mr. Cohen’s culpability for bank fraud -- materially affects the Committee’s assessment of his credibility....Mr. Cohen repeatedly testified that he did not seek employment in the White House following President Trump’s election. This is demonstrably, materially, and intentionally false." Jordan and Meadows also cited Cohen’s failure to list foreign contracts on a “Truth and Testimony” form he was required to fill out before the hearing. The Republicans also noted testimony regarding the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. They claimed that while Cohen testified he was “a good lawyer who understood the need to present his client with sound legal advice,” he also said he made a payment to Daniels “without bothering to consider whether that was improper, much less whether it was the right thing to do.” Jordan and Meadows also said that Cohen made a false statement regarding his involvement with the creation of the Twitter account, @WomenForCohen. Cohen, on Wednesday, claimed he did not create the account, and someone from the firm RedFinch made it. We were having fun during a stressful time,” Cohen said Wednesday. Jordan and Meadows wrote to AG Barr that Cohen reportedly had asked someone to create the account to “elevate his profile.” The letter said that Cohen's testimony "was a spectacular and brazen attempt to knowing and willfully testify falsely and fictitiously to numerous material facts." They claimed the testimony included "intentionally false statements designed to make himself look better on a national stage," adding : "Mr. Cohen's prior conviction for lying to Congress merits a heightened suspicion that he has yet again testified falsely before Congress." • • • LIMBAUGH TAKES ON THE COHEN TESTIMONY, WHILE DEMOCRATS FUNDRAISE ON IT. Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday called Michael Cohen’s public congressional hearing the “official unveiling of the Democrats’ impeachment process of President Trump.” Limbaugh said : “All of this is about ongoing retribution for Donald Trump, getting even with Donald Trump for having dared to beat Hillary Clinton. But never forget this, folks. If anybody, including Cohen, had evidence that would send Donald Trump away, I guarantee you he would get a plea deal that does not include jail time. The fact that Michael Cohen is going to jail is proof positive to me that he doesn’t have diddly-squat in terms of legality or illegality on Trump....And we have just learned that Cohen has been coordinating all of this with Democrats. And why wouldn’t he? This is his ticket out. This is his ticket to a reduced time in jail. Lanny Davis, it may as well be Hillary Clinton sitting behind Michael Cohen....There are two things going on here : punishment of Trump for having won, smearing him, destroying him, family, anything else they can destroy. But at the same time, they want to proceed on this impeachment pathway because they must really be worried that Trump could get reelected." • The Democratic National Committee and Senator Elizabeth Warren both used Michael Cohen’s highly anticipated congressional testimony in fundraising pleas addressed to supporters Wednesday. Senator Elizabeth Warren's email read : "Under oath and in an open session of Congress, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted advisors implicated him in criminal activity while he’s been in the White House. Our criminal justice system is hanging on and doing its job -- the truth is coming out -- despite unprecedented, relentless, and potentially illegal pressure from Donald Trump and his associates in and out of government. But here’s the biggest threat right now : Donald Trump, or the next President, using the pardon power to cover up and permanently excuse this wrongdoing.” The Democratic National Committee also sent out a fundraising text that read : “Michael Cohen’s testimony makes this clear : Trump is a threat to our country. It’s up to us to make him a one-term President.” • The fact is, as Rush Limbaugh alluded to, that Cohen has been cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation since November. He appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee Wednesday to testify against Trump, comparing the President to a mobster and calling him a “racist” and “conman.” BUT, he refused to accuse Trump of collusion with Russia -- instead, he told the Committee that the President’s “desire to win would have him work with anyone.” Michael Cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison term soon after he was convicted of financial crimes, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress late last year. IF he had given Mueller ANY evidence that could serve s the basis for an impeachment against President Trump, Michael Cohen would still be "negotiating" -- that is, singing to Mueller. There would have been no sentencing. • Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also slammed House Democrats for holding the public hearing s Trump negotiates with Kim this week : “During President Obama’s last year in office, North Korea was firing a missile every 24 days. Under @realDonaldTrump, it’s been 457 days without a missile launch. Now Democrats are using Michael Cohen -- an established liar -- to distract from this historic progress overseas. Let’s be clear : This is a total sideshow to distract from @realDonaldTrump’s accomplishments overseas. Democrats have invited someone to testify to Congress who is literally going to jail, in part, for lying to Congress under oath." • Of course, the propagandist media jumped onboard the Cohen bandwagon even before he began his testimony. The hearing was framed as everything from an impeachment “test drive” for Democrats to “a bullet right to the heart of the investigation into the President.” Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd declared at the start of NBC’s live special coverage : “Look, let’s call it what it is. If there is an impeachment inquiry against the President of the United States, today is day one. Today will be viewed, in hindsight, as the unofficial start of this.” Hiding behind a disclaimer that it was “not to say that is what we’re watching today,” Todd nevertheless crowed : “...in many ways, what the Oversight Committee, what House Democrats are doing is essentially starting to test drive an impeachment procedure and Michael Cohen is the star attraction for day one.” • • • A LOOK AT THIS WEEK'S COHEN LIES. Here they are, called by InfoWars "inconsistencies and potential lies" : "(1.) Cohen said Roger Stone told Trump in July he spoke with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the release of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Assange publicly announced his intention to release Clinton’s emails in June of 2016 (after already releasing a trove in March 2016), shortly after former FBI Director James Comey exonerated Clinton. So even IF Stone made Trump aware of the email dumps, it was already publicly known. WikiLeaks issued a statement shortly after Cohen’s claim detailing as much. 'STATEMENT on Michael Cohen testimony to Congress: WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange has never had a telephone call with Roger Stone. WikiLeaks publicly teased its pending publications on Hillary Clinton and published 30k of her emails on 16 March 2016. https://t.co/XcH75u3kbu' — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) February 27, 2019. (2.) Cohen denied having a desire to work at the White House after Trump was elected. In an exchange with Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Cohen stated he did not want to work at the White House. Rep. Jordan: 'How long did you work in the White House?' Michael Cohen: 'I never worked in the White House.' Rep. Jordan: 'That’s the point, isn't it?' But even CNN had to point out his lie, noting it was well-known that Cohen did in fact want to work at the White House, and badly. CNN Anchors call out Michael Cohen for lying to Congress about "not wanting" a job in the White House. pic.twitter.com/krQK1QhjHB' — Jon Nicosia (@NewsPolitics) February 27, 2019. 'Hahahaha Michael Cohen begged to work at the White House and everyone knows it.' — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 27, 2019 (3.) Cohen admitted to being a foreign agent for Kazakhstan despite failing to register as one. This violates the Foreign Agents Registrations Act, according to Representative Mark Meadows (R-NC), who then put forward a criminal referral for Cohen. (4.) Cohen told Congress he never defrauded a bank despite pleading guilty to bank fraud. 'Michael Cohen pled guilty to making false statements to a financial institution, i.e. bank fraud, yet he just testified that he never defrauded a bank. He literally just lied to Congress again.' — John Cardillo (@johncardillo) February 27, 2019. (5.) Cohen stated that he’s never been to Prague, which contradicts assertions from the infamous Steele Dossier. Either Cohen is lying, or the Steele Dossier fabricated the claim Cohen traveled to Prague to meet with 'Kremlin officials' to discuss payments to whoever “hacked” Hillary Clinton. • • • WHY ARE THE DEMOCRATS SUBJECTING THEMSELVES TO RIDICULE BY RELYING ON COHEN? It's unclear why the Democrat-led House Oversight Committee would want Cohen as their star witness against Trump, given his zero-credibility because of his history of lying to Congress, the IRS, and several financial institutions. • In at least one way, Michael Cohen resembles Paul Manafort, whom the Democrats have shredded. Both men tried to bolster their already in-place network of foreign and domestic clients by adding the cachet of having THE client -- Donald and then President Trump. Their work for foreign clients is particularly similar. And, last week, Jordan and Meadows first addressed the issue in a letter to Cohen attorney Lanny Davis, to seek information about Cohen’s “consulting, lobbying and foreign agent work.” The letter cited information from the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) -- where Cohen had been under criminal investigation -- which outlined “a substantial amount of consulting business for himself throughout 2017 by marketing to corporations what he claimed to be unique insights about and access" to Donald Trump. “Cohen’s list of major domestic and foreign corporate clients included AT&T, Novartis, BTA Bank of Kazakhstan, Columbus Nova and Korea Aerospace Industries,” Jordan and Meadows wrote, listing the financial deals between Cohen and the corporations. The letter stated that AT&T paid Cohen $600,000 for insight on how the Trump administration would approach the proposed merger with Time Warner; Novartis paid Cohen $1.2 million for access to the White House on health care policy; BTA Bank paid Cohen a “large sum” under a business agreement; Russian-linked company Columbus Nova paid him $500,000 for advice on sources of “capital” and potential investments; and Korea Aerospace Industries paid $150,000 for “legal consulting” related to a Pentagon contract the company was bidding on. Like Paul Manafort, was been charged with violations for not disclosing his lobbying activities with Ukraine, Michael Cohen is in the same dubious boat. WHY would the Democrats stick their collective neck out for such an unwholesome liar?? • WHY are the House Democrats beginning their "impeach Trump" effort by parading Cohen in front of America and a GOP minority that has all the Cohen facts and sordid history? Cohen has been under criminal investigation as part of a grand jury probe into his personal business dealings, including bank fraud and his tax business, since April 2018, when the FBI raided his home, office and hotel room to seize a collection of documents as part of the SDNY’s criminal probe. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to five counts of tax evasion, one count of making false statements to a financial institution, one count of willfully causing an unlawful corporate contribution, and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. The excessive contribution concerned a $130,000 payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an alleged one-time sexual encounter with Trump several years before he became President. Stormy Daniels told Michael Cohen : "I'm proud of you" for "beginning to tell the truth" about his actions in public testimony before the House Oversight Committee. • WHY would the House Democrats -- and we can be sure their effort was coordinated with Schiff, Schumer and the DNC -- deal with Clinton "fixer" Lanny Davis, besmirching the integrity of Elijah Cummings House Oversight Committee by pre-planning Cohen's testimony? The Democrats certainly know that Lanny Davis reportedly established a GoFundMe account for Cohen’s legal and other expenses last August after Cohen pled guilty in federal court to eight federal crimes. The account is named the Michael Cohen Truth Fund. The GoFundMe page has since been edited to remove the purpose for legal expenses. Cohen told Congress at a hearing Wednesday that Cohen is representing him free of charge, but that he hoped to pay Davis when he gets out of prison in three years and begins earning an income again. Representative Jody Hice, a Georgia Republican, asked Cohen at the hearing : "Who is paying Lanny Davis?" Cohen : "At the present moment, no one." Hice: "So he's doing all this work for nothing?" Cohen: "Yes, sir. And I hope so." Representative Jordan was in disbelief that Davis is willing to wait three years. Cohen answered: “I guess he thinks it’s important.” As of Wednesday afternoon, the account has raised $204,850 of a stated goal of $500,000. Cohen’s appearance before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform seems to be driving donations as observed by the steady stream of contributions recorded at the page Wednesday. So, the US Congress is being used to raise funds to pay Clintonista fixer Lanny Davis for helping a convicted liar -- thanks to these Insane Democrats. • WHY would the Democrats choose to highlight a convicted liar who calls President Trump a "racist" despite all of reality proving that he is not.?? Candace Owens taunted Michael Cohen Wednesday morning after Trump’s former lawyer testified that Donald Trump is a “racist” and a “con man.” Owens immediately dropped in a little surprise, tweeting out a private Twitter message Michael Cohen sent her last summer and asked, “Should I go nuclear on Michael Cohen Who I know from years ago and who tried to approach me last summer to help 'change the narrative' (also known as LIE) about the President? Because I’m thinking I should. This coward plotted this entire “racist” lie to save himself.” • • • DEAR READERS, perhaps the biggest WHY is why the House Democrats -- who helped prepare Cohen for his Oversight Committee testimony -- did not know that he would finally refuse to play ball on the key issue. Cohen specifically testified that he lacks direct evidence of improper collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia -- a significant admission, given Cohen's longtime status as the President's former top lawyer and fixer. We now know why Michael Green is going to prison for three years instead of being milked and coddled by special counsel Robert Mueller. There is NO EVIDENCE of Trump collusion with Russia, or as the Democrats are now calling it -- conspiracy. But, this testimony also raises questions -- once more -- about the entire Mueller investigation. • AND, Cohen stated conclusively that Donald Trump never asked him to lie to Congress. Cohen also indicated that the rumors about a "love child" are false, that Trump did not abuse drugs, that he has a large ego and bought a portrait for an inflated price. • AND, while Cohen presented a check to proves Trump engaged in campaign illegalities, as legal experts have said many times, if a personal reason (keeping his wife from finding out) exists to make the payments, then the election campaign rationale is almost certainly not relevant. One can argue that President Trump misled the public about his knowledge of Stormy Daniels and others, but this is not illegal. Cohen did indicate that he sent bills for his work. • AND, Cohen did solicit business based upon his connection with Trump as President. He admitted to several contracts. Self-benefit was a clear motivator for him. • Cohen did given testimony to Trump inflating his assets for beneficial banking. He also stated that Trump reduced assets for tax breaks, these issues are for taxing authorities to understand and negotiate with Trump's tax accounting and legal team. They usually lead to fines and refiling the complicated corporate tax returns of real estate groups. • To summarize -- the move to impeach Trump was given some boosts yesterday by partisan Democrats, but little in the way of "high crimes and misdemeanors" was demonstrated by the President while in office. As Patricia McCarthy put it : "The anti-Trump crowd will feel that this hearing was fruitful, but I suspect that most Americans found the hype misleading and hardly worth the effort. With this stunt, the Democratic Party has further demeaned itself, humiliated itself....the Democrats and their handmaidens in the media are busy pretending Michael Cohen's 'testimony' is valid. It is not. He is just this week's Punchinello of the imploding Democratic Party." • And the answer to every "WHY" question is that the Democrats are using Michael Cohen because they have NO EVIDENCE against President Trump from any reliable source . That is because there is NO EVIDENCE.