Trump-Cohen crisis - LIVE: US president breaks silence on crisis as calls for impeachment grow

[workinclasszero]

LIVE BLOG Andrew Griffin @_andrew_griffin Emily Shugerman @eshugerman 46 minutes ago

Key Points

Trump Twitter devoted to rally in West Virginia
After speech in which he ignored day of disaster and talked about turkeys and windmills
Politicians call on Trump to answer for his role in 'criminal and corrupt' actions

Donald Trump has addressed the escalating crisis besetting his presidency surrounding revelations from his former lawyer and a run of legal troubles that could see him investigated as part of a criminal case.

Following his former personal attorney and 'fixer' Michael Cohen's guilty pleas to a string of crimes - one of which he said the then-Republican candidate directed him to commit - the president tweeted:"If anyone is looking for a good lawyer, I would strongly suggest that you don’t retain the services of Michael Cohen!"

The outburst follows a day of major legal troubles unprecedented since he entered the White House in 2016.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-cohen-live-updates-twitter-us-president-latest-manafort-campaign-impeachment-a8502491.html

[bdamomma]

1. I wonder if he

mimic the past president nixon who said I am not a crook???

I hope he keeps on digging.

He can fool his supporters but he is not going to fool us. Jerk/criminal/traitor/ russian agent

[workinclasszero]

3. That's funny because I was thinking the same thing last night!

That's showing my age a bit LOL

[bdamomma]

5. I guess being DU'er

has it's good points!!

[saidsimplesimon]

2. It rates a live broadcast

across the pond and...crickets here from our Congress?

[workinclasszero]

6. The GOP Congress is complicit and compromised

I think many GOP sphincters are puckered up with the coming revelations from Cohan.

[saidsimplesimon]

8. "It's a great day in the neighborhood."

Jeez, my regrets for not adding, a great day in that the truth is out, nothing IT can do to deny anything from the pubic record. IT is unraveling faster than I can type.

[workinclasszero]

9. Truly if there are any republicans in Congress or state office that are actual Americans that want

to protect the constitution from a dangerous criminal cabal led by Trump....

NOW is the time to make that clear! NOW is the time to call for Congressional investigations of Trump's traitorous dealings with the Russians.

NOW is the time to bring his crime family to a screeching halt!

If they all are silent in the face of their president being an unindicted co-conspirator then they can and will share in his shame as well!

[eleny]

4. By calling Cohen a rat Trump admits That Cohen is telling the truth

[workinclasszero]

7. Yup

Trump has always acted like a guilty man because he is GUILTY as sin!

[SeattleVet]

10. Nixon responds:

"And *I'm* the one that had to resign?"