Michael Cohen's congressional tell-all won't come as soon as we'd thought.
President Trump's former fixer long ago left his ex-boss' side, providing hours of testimony to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into the Trump campaign's potential involvement with Russian election interference. Cohen was scheduled to publicly testify about Trump to Congress on Feb. 7, but revealed Wednesday he'd postpone that appearance due to "ongoing threats against his family from President Trump" and Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
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Cohen is probably best known for paying porn star Stormy Daniels to conceal her story of an affair with Trump, as well as reportedly handling the Trump Organization's plan to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. He's since fallen out of Trump's good graces and landed a three-year jail sentence for lying to Congress about the Moscow discussions and financial crimes. Cohen promised in his December sentencing to "state publicly all he knows about Mr. Trump" after the Mueller investigation concluded, and reportedly planned to "say things that will give you chills" in his February testimony.
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