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WASHINGTON—Republicans on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are calling on Oversight Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) to refer former personal attorney to President Donald Trump Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for prosecution.
They allege that Cohen lied to Congress seven additional times during a Feb. 27 Oversight Committee hearing after pleading guilty last year to lying to Congress.
“Ranking Member [Jim] Jordan (R-Ohio) and the rest of us warned the Democrats that we couldn’t trust a man who was going to jail for lying to Congress,” Oversight member Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said during a press conference in Washington April 10. “But they couldn’t help themselves—they took the bait, hook, line and sinker.”
Green has authored a resolution that calls on the transcript of the Feb. 27 hearing to be sent to the Department of Justice to “aid the Attorney General’s consideration of investigation and potential prosecution of Michael Cohen’s criminal conduct.” The Oversight GOP says they plan to vote on the resolution in two weeks.
The ‘Lie’
The main lie, the committee Republicans allege, centers around Cohen’s assertion during the hearing that he never asked Trump to pardon him.
‘‘I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from President Trump,” he told the committee.
In a letter to Cummings, Cohen’s attorney, Lanny Davis, said that Cohen “could have been clearer regarding the time frames,” which contradicts Cohen’s statement that he “never” asked for a pardon.
Cummings said on CNN on March 7 that he told Cohen he would “‘nail you to the cross [if you lie].’ And I meant that.” Cummings also said he needed to make sure “they are true inconsistencies and not outright lies. And then I gotta find out if it meets even the threshold that the DOJ would even want to look at it.”
But after reviewing a letter from Davis, Cummings said that, at least on that point, he wasn’t going to press for a perjury investigation. more here
“I will nail you to a cross”?!? Geez, these folks show us which side of Christianity they are on more EVERY DAY!
(hint: it wasn’t the GOOD guys doing the crucifying…)
…Cohen is no Jesus, true, but the Muslims the Democrats love so much don’t have a problem crucifying people either, so maybe it’s rubbing off…
https://libcom.org/files/images/library/Armenian%20crucifixions.jpg
Cohen never learns that when a big guy knocks you down, sometimes its smart to stay down even if you think you can get up. For some reason he keeps opening his mouth just to get wacked again.
Screw Energy, Agriculture, Medicine, Scientific Research….
the ONLY US growth industry is Investigations.
(NOT Law Enforcement, i.e. PROSECUTIONS, just investigarating…)
A co-worker of my acquaintance knows this guy personally. He said that another friend of his saw Cohen and his wife walking somewhere the other day in NYC and said they both looked like a hot mess; much like a cat drug through a bush backwards.
I guess the moral of the story is this: Lying is hard work.