Legal Crisis Manager and attorney, Lanny J. Davis & Associates, former President Clinton Special Counsel and privacy advisor/President Bush, author, columnist
Today he stood up and testified under oath that Donald Trump directed him to commit a crime by making payments to two women for the principal purpose of influencing an election. If those payments were a crime for Michael Cohen, then why wouldn't they be a crime for Donald Trump?
1)
@MichaelCohen212
this morning reaffirmed what he said last July 2 and told me many times since โ that he decided to put his wife, daughter, son and country first. Today he again told the truth and nothing but the truth.
@realDonaldTrump
called him a liar. Who do you believe?
.
@realDonaldTrump
Have you no sense of shame? Decency? Tweeting on this day of honor and grief for John McCain? Does your exclusion from service embarrass you? Time to apologize for disparaging his military service? For refusing to lower flag? If not now when?
Why is my representing
@MichaelCohen212
as attorney of such high interest? Not about me. Itโs about a nationโs yearning for truth. And Michael Cohen has said itโs time for him to speak the truth and put his family and Country first. I am glad to help him.
Michael Cohen took this step today so that his family can move on to the next chapter. This is Michael fulfilling his promise made on July 2nd to put his family and country first and tell the truth about Donald Trump.
Obviously, there is an ongoing investigation, and we are sensitive to that. But suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt
@MichaelCohen212
. Any attempt at spin can not change what is on the tape.
#1
We will not respond to
@RepMattGaetz
despicable lies & personal smears, except to say we trust that his colleagues in the House, both Republicans and Democrats, will repudiate his words & his conduct.
Did
@rudygiuliani
really say on Sunday shows that
@michaelcohen212
should cooperate with prosecutors and tell the truth? Seriously? Is that Trump and Giuliani definition of โtruthโ? Trump/Giuliani next to the word โtruthโ = oxymoron. Stay tuned.
#thetruthmatters
So let me get this straight.
@IvankaTrump
gets to decide which emails are personal and which are official business, and without any outside review, such as FBI investigation, gets to declare to media that only 100 or so were about official business? Anyone see
#doublestandard
?
1)Michael Cohenโs legal victory over Donald Trump in Thursdayโs NY State Supreme Court decision. Cohen can subpoena Trump to testify to prove case that Trump owes him legal fees - if Trump refuses, Cohen can obtain โdefault judgmentโ and seize Trump assets to pay off debt
Is there any
@realDonaldTrump
supporter who can defend, much less state they are not embarrassed, by the decision of
@POTUS
not to attend honor ceremony at the cemetery of the WW I fallen due to rain? Anyone? Any GOP member of Congress? #
@realDonaldTrumpembarrassesAmerica
1) DEAR RED STATES; WE'RE LEAVING.
We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, we're taking the other Blue States with us...that includes Hawaii, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, and all the Northeast.
Latest news
@MichaelCohen212
tapes of conversations are being released by
@realDonaldTrump
& his legal team who own and waived the privilege. Will
@RudyGiuliani
call these tapes โexculpatoryโ again? As I noted before, the tapes will speak for themselves โ spin canโt change facts.
Could I ask MSM reporters to take a breath and stop asking panicky โwhat ifโ questions about what
@realDonaldTrump
might do? Follow the lead of our calm President-elect: Trumpโs silly lawsuits or the foolish SoS Pompeii statements are of โno consequence.โ Itโs over. Just stop.
On
@FaceTheNation
this morning, I said when
@realDonaldTrump
calls
@MichaelCohen212
a โratโ for telling the truth and praises aides who stonewall, he sounds more like a mobster than
@potus
- the top law enforcement official in the government, and betrays his oath of office.
John McCain was my friend. I loved him and admired him. He was kind. He had courage and integrity. To me, most important of all, he reminded me you could have political differences and still avoid personal attacks. Thank you, Senator McCain. May God bless your good soul
Now
@MichaelCohen212
is committed to continue to do so going forward as can be seen from his sworn statement in federal court today about
@realDonaldTrump
instruction to
@MichaelCohen212
to pay money to 2 women that Mr. Cohen admitted was a campaign finance law violation (2 of 3)
This is a new beginning for Michael Cohen, his chance to tell the โrest of the story.โ On July 2nd Michael announced his independence and his commitment to tell the truth. (1 of 2)
@LindseyGrahamSC
Oh .
@LindseyGrahamSC
what has happened to you? You still havenโt said anything about .realDonaldTrump insulting your friend John McCain in Japan ... or said anything about Trump โin loveโ with the murderer Kim, who just executed his US negotiators. Oh Lindsey. Where are you?
1) We do not forget
@MichaelCohen212
who is currently serving his sentence and away from his family and friends. Lets remind him we are grateful for his bravery, as he has been the only person to stand up and tell the truth in this entire matter - in contrast to
@realDonaldTrump
1) Bulletin to
@realDonaldTrump
โ You can huff. You can puff. You can bluff as many times as you want, blowing smoke that the election is rigged, lying about rigged mailed votes and blatant efforts to corrupt US Postal system to suppress votes: IT JUST DOESNโT MATTER. Because...
.
@MichaelCohen212
given just credit by
@TishJames
for the fraud charges against Trump. Sitting on the sidelines in continuing silenceโ
@ManhattanDA
Alvin Bragg. Reread the published letter top Special Prosecutor Mark Pomerantz who resigned after
@ManhattanDA
declined prosecution
Thank you .
@Jim_Jordan
for your obsession over me. You made my day by mentioning me today during your usual .
@realDonaldTrump
apologist tirade. But not once have mentioned the $35K personal check he wrote while president to pay for Stormy Daniels cover-up. Why?
#Jordanhypocrisy
#2
I also trust that
@RepMattGaetz
constituents will not appreciate that their congressman has set a new low โ which in todayโs political culture is hard to imagine as possible.
#newlow
3) Judge Kavanaugh: why not ask for a thorough FBI investigation? If you are telling the truth that is only to your advantage. You donโt want to serve on S Ct with cloud of being an accused rapist, no matter how many years ago, hanging over you. Why not ask for investigation?
Baldwin Blasts Trumpโs S.N.L. Tweet as โThreat to My Safety and That of My Familyโ - Vanity Fair.
@RealDonaldTrump
thinks
#theBullyintheBullyPulpit
will silence the truth - but the truth is a stubborn thing. Cohen testimony coming.
Violent protesters lighting fires and using violence in Portland should wear
@realDonaldTrump
buttons. That is who they are helping.Progressives in Portland need to call them out, including the Mayor. ReTweet please. Donโt allow violent people help
@realDonaldTrump
Reminder -
@MichaelCohen212
testified publicly โfirstโunder oath on Feb 27 before House Oversight Comm that he was in room with
@realDonaldTrump
during Stone call in July 16 telling Trump about coming Wiki emails leak of DNC emails. Trump lied as did Stone.
#creditCohen
1)
@realdonaldtrump
jokes about a โbad hair dayโ and leads โlock em upโ and โCNN sucksโ chants at political rallies while not calling Presidents Clinton and Obama and others who received pipe bombs. To all R members of Congress - all -
#itstimetospeakup
.
Rather than continuing to attack
@MichaelCohen212
and his family, ignoring warnings from Congressional leadership, on
#InternationalWomensDay
@realDonaldTrump
should instead be explaining why he, his son and CFO signed checks for hush money to keep a woman quiet
2) On January 20, 2021, at about 12:01 pm, if you are not voluntarily gone from the WH, you will be dragged out. And maybe waiting for you at the WH door: members of NYPD, sent by Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance, Jr. and they will have shackles and handcuffs. Bye bye
@realDonaldTrump
.
Now that Ms. Blasey Ford has come forward there can be no doubt - as
@LindseyGrahamSC
has bravely said - she has a right to be heard publicly before the committee before a vote. Shame on any GOP senator who would deny her they right. Plus lie detector expert should be called.
2) To the โlock-her-upโ hypocrite
@realDonaldTrump
- FBI found no evidence of hacking of .
@HillaryClinton
private server and no emails among 33,000 marked as classified. Will
@IvankaTrump
attorney ask FBI to examine Microsoft server used by
@IvankaTrump
for hacking?
See this TV ad :
@realDonaldTrump
in his own words.
This disgusting hypocrite. Dangerous to my family and our country.
This ad must run 24/7 to Election Day and then he will be gone.
Letโs hope forever in shame as a national historical mental aberration.
.
@MichaelCohen212
did more than any to show .
@realDonaldTrump
is a crook. Mueller praised him. NY AG, Congress use Cohen info as a basis to get .
@realDonaldTrump
tax returns. But Cohen is still only Trump Co person going to jail. NOT Don Jr - who signed hush money checks. Why?
4)
@MichaelCohen212
could provide congress with thousands of documents that
@realDonaldTrump
has committed crimes as president - lies about Trump Tower Moscow, obstruction, hush money payoffs to porn star, obstruction, etc. Why not use him to help as John Dean was used in 1974?
See
@MichaelCohen212
pre-sentence report filed last night - multiple friends and colleagues attest to his character and putting his family and country first. All the
#truth
without asking anything in return - including pardon. Go to
2-Today,
@MichaelCohen212
returning to the
#Democratic
Party another step in his journey that began with the
@ABC
@GStephanopolous
Cohen putting family and country first -distancing himself from the values of the current Admin - Canโt wait for his first interview!
#StayTuned
John McCainโs legacy is for all time - eloquently articulated by President Obama and President Bush: our nation can be better than the divisive, hateful, bombast of
@realDonaldTrump
โ a bipartisan condemnation not of policy differences but of the vitriol of
@realDonaldTrump
@realDonaldTrump
The number of people who โlikedโ this disgraceful attack on the independent judiciary by a shameful
@realDonaldTrump
who also belittled importance or troops on border missing Thanksgiving is incomprehensible. They should read conservative strict constitutionalist
@JusticeRoberts
@realDonaldTrump
Look at the thousands of likes and retweets among poor
@realDonaldTrump
supporters who donโt realize that this claim by their hero is 100% false. Go look at Obama house and then we will all wonder - do you mind when your hero lies to you? Almost all the time?
2) I am proud that
#robertmueller
himself today confirmed that
@MichaelCohen212
has told the truth and that truth is relevant and significant. Michael will continue to work with the SC and others until the full truth is told. Support
1) Michael Cohen: โThey committed crimesโ. Why has MSM not published names of all the SDNY AUSAs and leaders for giving Weisselberg immunity, ONLY Cohen goes to jail โ and calling Trump โIndividual-1โ rather than naming him as unindicted co-conspiratorโ?
2)
what about personal $35,000 hush money check Trump signed to
@MichaelCohen212
as president in Aug 2017? Displayed on TV at House
Oversight Hearing. If Trump canโt be indicted - yet - why canโt Don Jr be indicted now for signing same checks from Trust Fund? Silence from
@POTUS
Thank you
@GovPritzker
of Illinois for standing up to Trump today on phone and live just now on CNN โ while
@realDonaldTrump
used a bible in front of a church he has been to once in four years, you spoke truth to power. And showed us in contrast that defency can prevail. TY.
#ByeByeElise
@EliseStefanik
engaged in lies and willful blindness during impeachment hearings, as my prior Tweets have stated. Now she is unhappy with the trending goodbye to her career in Congress next November. Sorry. Canโt comply.
#ByeByeElise
.
Taking a poll on whether anyone shares my doubts about AG Barrโs sincerity in criticizing
@realDonaldTrump
โs Tweets - given the AGโs silence on Trumpโs political interference on Stone sentence and on resignations of four career prosecutors.
If you share my doubts, Retweet.
From
@NBCNews
tonight. Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate. Supporters of
@realDonaldTrump
and GOP leaders - Trump said he was on every ballot. He was. And he and GOP lost by over 8.6 million votes. Ds now nearing +40.
#bluetsunami
Uncomfortable about surfacing or anonymous complaint against Judge Cavanaugh. Not discounting the veracity or seriousness of the charges by the individual. And I oppose Judge Cavanaugh for SCt for substantive reasons. But something not right about this. Any fellow liberal agree?
Answering questions - a subpoena in a civil case for testimony under oath to prove a debt is owed must be complied with. Trump not immune as president. If he defies it then NY state court can order default judgment - ie, Cohen wins and can seize Trump assets to collect $1m+ debt
@realDonaldTrump
Does this ignorant vicious man.
@realDonaldTrump
not realize that the constitution requires principal officers of the Executive Branch to be subject to the advice and consent of the US Senate - but the Special Counsel not, since subordinate to principal officers, the DAG and AG?
Newsweek: Lindsey Graham says Turkey's Erdogan 'Misjudged Trump' over Syria Does
@LindseyGrahamSC
have no bottom as he turns his principles upside down for the unprincipled
@realDonaldTrump
? If Senator McCain were alive he would be ashamed for his old friend
@LindseyGrahamSC
The shameless
@Morning_Joe
performance of Trump Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller - refusing to criticize Trump for 1/6 and saying 1/6 committee avoided facts - he should apologize to Americans who saw the danger of Trump role and refusal to accept peaceful transition.
via
@NYTimes
Thank you .โฆ
@MichaelCohen212
โฉ Almost all material cited by NY AG from
@MichaelCohen
โs โฉ 2-27-19 testimony. Still, no one has investigated SDNY decision to target only โฆ
@MichaelCohen212
โฉ. No journalist. No government agency. Why?
#1
@MichaelCohen212
testified truthfully before the House Oversight Comm. He took full responsibility for his guilty pleas & backed up his testimony w/ documents. It I not surprising that two pro-Trump Committee members made a baseless criminal referral.
Anyone wonder whether
@EliseStefanik
is a compulsive liar? Here is what she said in fundraising letter - sent to me! โLast week, I exposed Adam Schiff using his own words. But the "Impeacher in Chief" silenced me.He silenced me because he's afraid of me.โ Fact: she went overtime
Thank you
@senatemajldr
and Senate Rsโ
Dems better off if Senate Rs refuse to hear
@AmbJohnBolton
, proving they and
@realDonaldTrump
canโt stand the truth and that Senate โtrialโ is coverup, no Trump vindication. Ds win back Senate and Presidency in Nov. 2020. Thanks Senate Rs.
There is no statute of limitations in Maryland for a felony like what Brett Kavanaugh is accused of. If Dr. Ford ever wanted to pursue it that way, she could make a criminal complaint - even if it's after Republicans confirm Kavanaugh.
@realDonaldTrump
Is this a single supporter of .
@realDonaldTrump
Republican member of Congress who will admit if Barack Obama had said he was โin loveโ with N Korean murderer dictator Kim contradicted Secretary of State and minimized Kim setting off missiles he she would have denounced Obama?
Must see on tape
@MSNBC
@Morning_Joe
@JoeNBC
this morningโs eloquent and factual Joe S account that there are indisputable facts supporting Russian collusion with Trump campaign and
@realDonaldTrump
and Jr (โlove itโ) obstructing justice by lying about Trump Tower meeting.
My dear dear friend of 43 years โwith the sweetest and purest soul and biggest heart I have ever known - Rep. Elijah Cummings - is now gone to his maker, in Whom he believed deeply. May his sweet soul Rest In Peace. I will miss him so. Farewell my dear friend.
#elijahpeace
Michael Cohen will come before the
@OversightDems
&
@HouseIntel
Committees next week. Congress has an independent duty under the Constitution to conduct oversight of the Executive Branch, and any efforts to intimidate family members or pressure witnesses will not be tolerated.
@jimsciutto
OMG. This hateful disgusting person .
@realDonaldTrump
with such hate and inferiority complex for a deceased hero John McCain. Where is .
@LindseyGrahamSC
to speak up - at least on this? Oh Lindsey - where are u? What happened to you?
3) now
@realDonaldTrump
can run but he cannot hide from House subpoenas for tax returns and financial gifts from foreign governments and and multiple examples of the swamp in his own administration and conflicts of interest benefiting him personally. Democracy won tonight.
FYI - I wrote a Tweet congratulating
@MichaelCohen212
and sent text to him to Tweet to his much larger following - but was delayed posting myself so he posted first. All take a breath. I donโt control or have access to Mr. Cohenโs Twitter account. He is my client and my friend.
@Comey
But once again Mr. Comey, justifiably criticizing Barr, still hasnโt answered the question โDid I as FBI Director have the right to violate long-standing DOJ policies by sending game-changing Oct 28 2016 letter to Congress - 11 days from election? The answer is, if course, no.
5) Fact:
@realDonaldTrump
WHILE PRESIDENT wrote $35,000 checks to
@MichaelCohen212
- federal prosecutors found were CRIMINAL hush money payments. D Jr. signed checks too. Neither AG Barr nor any Rs mention these crimes. Yet only
@MichaelCohen212
in Trump Org goes to jail. Why?
I have been saying for years now that my client
@MichaelCohen212
was targeted by the government including receiving a disproportionate sentence for crimes committed by
#Trump
. AG Garland should add this to list of Trump possible abusive of power crimes.
Despite shameful Roy Cohn spinning performance by AG Barr, he directly, 100% contradicted
@realDonaldTrump
, who 1000+ times denied there was any Russian interference to help him in 2016 election and his belief in Putinโs denial.
@realDonaldTrump
โtrumpedโ by Barr.
#Timefortruth
Will .
@Jim_Jordan
Ohio constituents ask him why he is obsessed with me - does he need therapy? Or does he want to avoid explaining why he never mentions
@realDonaldTrump
writing $35k hush money checks from personal checking account as president? A felony.
#jimjordanhypocrisy
Must read. โฆ
@JRubinBlogger
โฉ proves once again she is one of the best and bravest commentators to confront the shameful hypocrisy and absence of principle in standing up to โฆ
@realDonaldTrump
โฉ of Pence, McConnell, and especially Ryan.
Message to .
@RepCummings
- the ultimate honor is when .
@realDonaldTrump
attacks you. I had the same honor. You now share that honor of a vicious attack based on lies with the honorable late John McCain - who the draft-dodging
@realDonaldTrump
also attacked. Congrats Mr. C.
All
@TheDemocrats
in
#Congress
owe this to
@MichaelCohen212
for launching every single issue into public domain during his 2/27/19 Congrssional testimony that is now basis for ongoing NY criminal investigations. Reps Jordan and Meadows and all the Rs lied for Trump to no avail.
@briantylercohen
@AOC
OH. MY. GOD. Thank you
@AOC
. You are brilliant and tell it straight and with facts. Keep going. For all of us especially our children. โ
@LannyDavis
Re. Trump verdict of guilty of financial fraud - it was
@MichaelCohen212
who paid the highest price l, took the greatest personal risk, to speak the truth in Fe2018 to House Committee - where all the evidence was first set out in public. Thanks
@MichaelCohen212
for your courage.