Michael Cohen has not shied away from his past transgressions during his testimony before the House Oversight Committee, and he also took the opportunity to go after Republican members of the committee for their continued support of President Trump.
After particularly feisty lines of questioning from the likes of Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) asked Cohen what the breaking point was that caused him to turn on Trump. He cited the president's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki in 2018 and his comments on the Charlottesville protests in 2017, as well as the "silliness" of Republican lawmakers "blindly" following Trump. Cohen even took responsibility for their actions, telling them he was at fault because he did "the same thing" they're doing now. "I protected Donald Trump for 10 years," he said.
But the comments were not meant just as a reprimand — they were also a warning. "The more people that follow Mr. Trump as I did blindly are going to suffer the same consequences that I'm suffering," Cohen said. Tim O'Donnell
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