Opinion: Michael Cohen’s revelations advance Trump’s inevitable reckoning
By Eugene Robinson Eugene Robinson Columnist focusing on politics and culture Email Bio Follow Columnist February 28 at 5:06 PM In Michael Cohen’s historic testimony Wednesday, there was a moment when the long-lost spines of President Trump’s political enablers, probably heaped in a clattering pile somewhere, must have felt a chill. It was when Cohen looked at his Republican inquisitors and foretold their future.
Early in his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee, Cohen gave a description of Trump that will go down in the annals of congressional testimony: “He is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat.” Incredibly, none of the Republicans on the panel even tried to refute the claim that the president of the United States is, in his essence, an unscrupulous grifter.
Another Republican made a weak attempt to challenge Cohen on one of his more sensational claims — that Trump never expected to win the presidency and instead saw his campaign as the “greatest infomercial in political history.” But there was no real effort to dispute Cohen’s many specific charges against Trump or even to question his shocking portrait of the man he once idolized.
Rep. Jim Jordan was so overwrought that I feared he might pull a muscle when he briefly thought he had caught Cohen in a lie on a boilerplate witness form. It turned out that Jordan was wrong — Cohen filled in the form correctly — and all the congressman injured was his pride.
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