Category: Politics

Former House Oversight Committee Chair Trey Gowdy slammed the House Democrats for asking President Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen to testify before Congress, despite the fact that he is heading to prison for the last lies he told Congress.

This Wednesday, Cohen delivered his public testimony, and while he was brought in to provide information on the accusations that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians as part of his campaign back in 2016, Cohen mostly delivered on character attacks of the president, instead of offering insight to his dealings with people from Russia.

During a Fox News interview, Trey Gowdy explained that he believes House Democrats brought in Michael Cohen, despite his convictions, to tie President Trump to campaign finance violations, rather than the stated goal of gathering information on Russia.

“Collusion. That’s what started this entire investigation. That’s the seminal question and that’s the one thing Michael Cohen’s been consistent on. In October of 2017, he said there was no evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. And he said it again today, but Democrats don’t want to hear that. They don’t want to hear that so now they want to move to an FEC [Federal Elections Commission] violation.” said Gowdy.

As Gowdy noted, Cohen denied that the President colluded with the Russians, however, he did try to tie Trump to Wikileaks via Roger Stone.

He claimed that President Trump was told by Stone that Julian Assange of Wikileaks was preparing to leak Hillary Clinton’s emails. Stone denies that he ever spoke to Assange.

Anyway, Trey Gowdy said that none of this matter simply because, even if it did happened, President Trump didn’t break any law.

“I’d be careful doing this, but let’s assume that Michael Cohen is telling the truth. What crime was committed?” Gowdy asked. “What crime is it listening to Roger Stone say, ‘I think Wikileaks is about to do what they tweeted they were going to do and dump a bunch of documents.’”

Gowdy explained that the entire testimony can be seen as a joke because Congress is the only body that considered Cohen a viable witness.

The Former House Oversight Committee Chair noted that both the Southern District of New York and Special Counsel Robert Mueller declined to use Cohen as a witness.

“The fact that Congress would allow someone that no real, serious investigation considers a witness to come and be their star witness shows how far Congress has fallen, and it breaks my heart to say that,” said Gowdy. “I care about the institution. But to call a convicted perjurer as your first witness was stunning to watch.”

This Thursday, President Trump unloaded on his former lawyer Michael Cohen following his hearing with the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, calling it “pretty shameful.”

When the President was asked about Cohen’s claims at the hearing that Trump was a con man, liar and a racist, he responded by saying: “Well, it’s incorrect and it’s very interesting because I tried to watch as much as I could. I wasn’t able to watch too much because I’ve been a little bit busy.”

“But I think having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of this very important summit is really a terrible thing,” Trump continued. “They could have made it two days later or next week and it would have been even better. They would have had more time.”

“But having it during this very important summit is sort of incredible, and he lied a lot,” said the President. “But it was very interesting because he didn’t lie about one thing: he said no collusion with the Russian hoax. I said I wonder why he didn’t lie about that too like he did everything else. I mean he lied about so many different things, and I was actually impressed that he didn’t say, ‘Well, I think there was collusion for this reason or that.'”

“He didn’t say that. He said no collusion,” President Trump added. “I was a little impressed by that, frankly. He could have gone all-out. He only went about 95% instead of 100%.”

The President then briefly turned the subject away from Cohen and focused on talking about the Russia investigation and the impact that it has had on the country.

“The fact is, there is no collusion, and I call it the witch hunt,” said President Trump. “This should never happen to another president. This is so bad for our country, so bad. You look at this whole hoax, I call it the Russian witch hunt, I now add the word hoax, it’s a very, very bad thing for our country.”

“But I was impressed with the fact that he — because the most important question up there was the one on collusion — and he said he saw no collusion,’ he said. “So we’ll see what happens. But it was pretty shameful, I think.”

The President also retweeted a tweet he posted on Wednesday, which stated: “Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me (unfortunately). He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud. He did bad things unrelated to Trump. He is lying in order to reduce his prison time. Using Crooked’s lawyer!”

Michael Cohen was attacked by many politicians after his hearing on Wednesday for allegedly making false claims, which even CNN called him out over.

During the hearing, Cohen claimed that he never wanted to work in the White House, a claim that was quickly refuted by both CNN and multiple people who were close to the administration.

“I think the issue there is that one sentence: ‘I did not want to go to the White House.’ All of our reporting suggests that’s not true,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said.

CNN’s Dana Bash also noted that everyone “witnessed this in real time that this president probably more than any other, if he wants somebody in the White House, they’re there.”

“You know, Reince Priebus and John Kelly probably didn’t want Omarosa to be working in the White House and other people, but they were there because the president wanted it to be so,” Bash continued. “So if Michael Cohen and the president really wanted it to happen, more importantly the president, it would have happened and he wanted it.”

Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee continues to be a “media circus” as many Republicans blast the case, with Rep. Carol Miller (R-W.Va.) becoming the latest to slam it naming him as a “waste of time.”

From Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) calling Cohen a “pathological liar” to GOP Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) denouncing the hearing for the “convicted perjurer,” there is no shortage of criticism toward President Trump’s former personal attorney.

This Wednesday, Cohen testified that he lied to Congress to benefit Donald Trump in front of the House Oversight Committee, but the West Virginia representative said the “sole purpose” of the hearing is just to discredit President Trump.

“I am very disappointed to have you in front of this committee today,” Miller said.

“Quite frankly, this isn’t the reason the people of West Virginia sent me to Congress. I find this hearing not in the best interest of the American people. This is another political game with the sole purpose of discrediting the president.” said Miller.

“How can we believe anything you’re saying?” Miller later asked. “The answer is, we can’t.”

Rep. Carol Miller continued to show her dislike toward the hearing case as she noted to House Oversight chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) that “we’ve canceled hearings on child separation and on other issues that are close to my heart for this media circus.”

“What a waste of time and money for a man who has gladly exploited the name of the president to promote his own name and fill his own pockets. It pains me that we are sitting here adding another chapter to his book.” she said.

While Carol Miller bashed the hearing for allegedly attempting to discredit the President, Cohen claimed there is a confidential “illegal act” on President Trump that’s “being investigated right now by the Southern District of New York, and I’ve been asked by them not to discuss it, not to talk about these issues,”

It’s sad how many people in the Gov. approve the waste of many on political cases, but refuse to spend a dime of tax payers money to build a wall and help defend our country from drugs, criminals.