'Republicans on the committee tried to destroy the credibility of his testimony, not because they believe that his testimony is false, but because they fear it is true,' Peter Wehner, who had served in three Republican administrations, said.
Republican members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee repeatedly called Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer and"fixer," a “liar,” a “convicted perjurer,” a “fake witness” and a “disgraced felon” during Cohen's testimony on Wednesday.
Representatives Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, left, and Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican, talk during testimony by Michael Cohen before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill on February 27. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “In a sane world, the fact that the president’s former lawyer produced evidence that the president knowingly and deceptively committed a federal crime—hush money payments that violated campaign finance laws—is something that even members of the president’s own party would find disquieting,” Wehner wrote. “But not today’s Republican Party.”
A copy of a check paid to Michael Cohen by President Trump is displayed as Cohen, a former attorney and a fixer for President Donald Trump, testified before the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, on February 27. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Wehner wrote: “In the most transparent and ham-handed way, [Republicans] saw no evil and heard no evil, unless it involved Mr. Cohen. [Trump] is their emperor, and they are his political Praetorian Guard.”
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