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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDISCUSSION THREAD: Michael Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight Committee
Starts at 10 AM.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)It's so disgusting that he's still in office. Republicans truly are the enemies of America.
bobGandolf
(871 posts)Trump is a behavioral epidemic that is spreading.
N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,767 posts)Republicans will throw every trick they can conceive of to distract, disrupt, discredit any testimony they believe will be damaging to Individual #1. Going to be a long day.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)as well as a traitor.
Yet they persist in trying to cover his ass.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Prove it. Show evidence like Innocent people do.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)BostonBlue
(53 posts)of Dump's crimes, instead of all going off in different directions. The Kavanaugh hearing is s good example of ineffective questioning.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)As you said see the Kavanaugh hearings. The rest of the committee should yield time to one or two members with prosecutorial experience.
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)Elijah Cummings, Maryland, Chairman
Carolyn Maloney, New York
Eleanor Holmes Norton, District of Columbia
Lacy Clay, Missouri
Stephen F. Lynch, Massachusetts
Jim Cooper, Tennessee
Gerry Connolly, Virginia
Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois
Jamie Raskin, Maryland
Harley Rouda, California
Katie Hill, California, Vice Chair
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
John Sarbanes, Maryland
Peter Welch, Vermont
Jackie Speier, California
Robin Kelly, Illinois
Mark DeSaulnier, California
Brenda Lawrence, Michigan
Stacey Plaskett, U.S. Virgin Islands
Ro Khanna, California
Jimmy Gomez, California
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York
Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts
Rashida Tlaib, Michigan
Minority
Jim Jordan, Ohio, Ranking Member
Justin Amash, Michigan
Paul Gosar, Arizona
Virginia Foxx, North Carolina
Thomas Massie, Kentucky
Mark Meadows, North Carolina
Jody Hice, Georgia
Glenn Grothman, Wisconsin
James Comer, Kentucky
Michael Cloud, Texas
Bob Gibbs, Ohio
Clay Higgins, Louisiana
Ralph Norman, South Carolina
Chip Roy, Texas
Carol Miller, West Virginia
Mark E. Green, Tennessee
Kelly Armstrong, North Dakota
Greg Steube, Florida
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)Link to tweet
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)And Congressman Meadows immediately interrupts, complaining that testimony wasn't provided in advance.
bluestarone
(17,005 posts)The senate WON'T (indict)! (SAD)
blogslut
(38,006 posts)Wee children throwing fits
Takket
(21,600 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Meadows and Jordan are so transparent.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Takket
(21,600 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,264 posts)demmiblue
(36,873 posts)I'm not sure I can handle watched this!
Takket
(21,600 posts)SCRUBDASHRUB
(7,252 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)There's no telling what he said to congressional committees in private.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)how low republican "morals" are.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)underpants
(182,854 posts)At work so I cant watchnit and the one line threads are too much.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)The Clintons are doing it!
Oh I DO hope so.
mnhtnbb
(31,399 posts)showing the Republicans lining up to kiss 45's traitorous orange ass.
Auggie
(31,177 posts)mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)but I could actually feel my blood pressure rise when Jordan started talking. I'll have to rely on you good people to filter it for me.
BumRushDaShow
(129,264 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)When Meadows and Jordan started talking, I grabbed for the remote and punched MUTE. If I have to this this a few hundred times today I may break it!
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)After Cohen's opening gave us a deeper picture of the thug in the People's House, I cannot bear to listen to his minions try to destroy the truth!
janx
(24,128 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)Takket
(21,600 posts)Cohen lies to protect drumpf. Look where that got him??? What incentive does he have to lie now??? That condition no longer exists.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Takket
(21,600 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)still_one
(92,309 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Cant even look at the TV.
Ive been an Ohioan for 40 years now and have seen the foul character of Jordan on display on several levels for many of the last years.
This is an historic day, but I just...cant... with Jordan.
still_one
(92,309 posts)spooky3
(34,462 posts)Providing the written statement in advance, the Dems didnt insure this was done, to give Repubs less to whine about.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Surely Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, or Pressley might have known and could have at least clued Elijah Cummings or co-chair Katie Hill in? Surely someone among the dozens could have offered a suggestion during the weeks of planning?
nolabear
(41,990 posts)This is now history. His history. Threaten THAT, you asshole.
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)Ouch.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)He has a point. I hope Rep. Cummings has an iron fist.
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)(she'll be at the back end of the questioning)
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)It's like watching history.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)wont overcome this.
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)I feel for them.
janx
(24,128 posts)rufus dog
(8,419 posts)INDIVIDUAL #1 IS DONALD TRUMP!
and the only time Rufus Dog didn't use tRump.
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)Link to tweet
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Theres almost a Well DUH quality to it, and yet its so sweet. We ALL know these things are true.
janx
(24,128 posts)say these things under oath, out loud.
Takket
(21,600 posts)And he brought documents to back all this up. So cant just dismiss this as lies.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)rurallib
(62,432 posts)I feel invigorated.
Much more to come I hope
Takket
(21,600 posts)demmiblue
(36,873 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I am so sick of all his drama.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)demmiblue
(36,873 posts)underpants
(182,854 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)The fact that 40% of this country supports this criminal is insane.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,264 posts)And this is why Gymaster Jordan was freaking out about not getting a copy of the statement until last night and blaming the Democrats (and Cummings reminded him that he didn't get until then too).
nolabear
(41,990 posts)The whole damn COUNTRY had this thing last night!
BumRushDaShow
(129,264 posts)He was trying to claim they were supposed to have documents available "24 hours before" the committee hearing.
Oh well....
underpants
(182,854 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,791 posts)He was probably so busy basking in the expected glory of his meeting with Kim and thinking about his Nobel Peace Prize while jerking off to Hannity on Fox that he was blindsided by the scope of Cohen's testimony.
The taste of his tears is like ambrosia.
RockRaven
(14,982 posts)We were reminded yet again that the WH is full of incompetent, if deeply mendacious and criminal, morons when the story came out that Dump and some of his staffers were caught off guard by the fact that Congress can override an emergency declaration. They. Don't. Know. How. Anything. Works. They really are just semi-sentient protoplasm running around pulling levers and pushing buttons, and everything is a black box to them.
Didn't know someone could give documentary evidence to the committee? What kind of moron would assume a Congressional committee only dealt with oral testimony? Christ almighty.
drray23
(7,635 posts)This guy is smart. He is demolishing trump in his opening statement , backing it with factual evidence. Right out of the gate he addressed his credibility issues and then proceeded to lay it thick. I dont see how the trumpists get past that.
Mr.Bill
(24,311 posts)forgeries and fakes.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)I guess hes doing his thing. His slimy, hysterical little thing.
spanone
(135,855 posts)SCRUBDASHRUB
(7,252 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)and hes citing numerous occasions when he turned them down. In four part harmony. He shut him down as only a lawyer would.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)or somebody else?
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)the guy that supposedly went to the worst law school in the country just outwitted the minority leader?
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Listening to him is going to be the painful part.
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)... repeating crap about how Cohen lied about something and ignoring the documents.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)drray23
(7,635 posts)janx
(24,128 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)YOU ARE WORKING FOR THE PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!
Just sayin'.
DBoon
(22,385 posts)Zoonart
(11,875 posts)Joe941
(2,848 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)Russia Russia with a side of Russian dressing.
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)Doodley
(9,116 posts)cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)"Mr. Cohen, you are getting quite a bit of questions regarding your character and history of lying. We have thousands of documented examples of President Trump lying, so between two liars, who should we believe?"
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)COHEN: "Yes"
Link to tweet
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Apparently Jordan is the pit bull designate.
demmiblue
(36,873 posts)Nanjeanne
(4,970 posts)asking any questions?
uponit7771
(90,348 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)Javaman
(62,532 posts)and they arrogantly believe they can still use the same bullshit tactics as before.
they could have prepared but didn't and they have failed at their one chance.
aka they are fucked now and from everything I'm reading, they know this full well.
it's so sweet. LOL
underpants
(182,854 posts)at least in public. Dare they alter from the propaganda machine.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)blogslut
(38,006 posts)It's not working. LOL
nolabear
(41,990 posts)uponit7771
(90,348 posts)... statements is more credible than claiming to be an angle and giving no account.
brooklynite
(94,666 posts)Last edited Wed Feb 27, 2019, 04:15 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211869035demmiblue
(36,873 posts)He is so agitated and red-faced.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Theyre repeatedly trying to trap him and then trying to shut his answers down. Because hes schooling them.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)That would be natural follow up to confirm or refute the comments about catch and kill.
IGoToDU
(177 posts)Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)what does that make Trump?
nolabear
(41,990 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)raging moderate
(4,307 posts)He is doing a good job.
nolabear
(41,990 posts)Incredible. Im starting to respect his skills.
Firestorm49
(4,036 posts)IGoToDU
(177 posts)That "gentlewoman from Kentucky" is a LULU.
demmiblue
(36,873 posts) Rep. Khanna
Rep. Gomez
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
Rep. Pressley
Rep. Tlaib
(Corrects: Rep. Plaskett has already questioned Cohen)
Link to tweet
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)To the "Yeah, but Hillary would have been even worse!" -faction of the left....