The Daily Wire’s Andrew Klavan explains how Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee offers no new insights or proof of wrongdoing against his former client Donald Trump on Wednesday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show.” Transcript and video below.
There’s almost nothing new in Cohen’s testimony. He doesn’t like Trump now, he says he’s a racist, he says that he paid him back, he paid Cohen back for paying off Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet, which is at worst a campaign finance violation, normally goes along with a fine or something like that, a slap on the wrist. Nothing to say about the fact that it’s uncomfortable that the President of the United States has all the sleazy stuff going on, like Bill Clinton did, it’s the same kind of thing, and that’s too bad. I don’t think it’s illegal for him to have a Moscow deal going on, it’s certainly illegal to lie about it in front of Congress, and here’s what he says about this:
Cohen: I lied to Congress when Mr. Trump stopped negotiating the Moscow Tower project in Russia. I stated that we stopped negotiating in January of 2016, that was false. Our negotiations continued four months later during the campaign. Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress, that’s not how he operates. In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there’s no Russian business and then go on to lie to the American people by saying the same thing. In his way he was telling me to lie.
First of all, this is all during the campaign. If Trump lied about it to the people then he’s a politician lying to the people, which makes him a politician. If he went before Congress and lied under oath, then he’s committing the crime of perjury, I don’t know what other crime is involved here. All he just said is he lied, I mean that’s it.
By the way, his point about this Trump Tower, the reason he went on with this project is because he didn’t think he was gonna win. Now if that’s true, if Donald Trump didn’t think he was gonna win, then certainly Vladimir Putin didn’t think Donald Trump was gonna win, which means everything he was doing was directed at Hillary Clinton, was directed at who he thought was gonna be the next President of the United States, which is what I certainly believe. The reason that Putin was supporting Trump is not because he thought Trump was gonna win, nobody thought Trump was gonna win, he did it because he thought it would give more problems, it would create more problems, more animosity toward President Hillary Clinton, who he thought was going to be the President the United States.
Again, we know this stuff about Trump, we know he’s carrying a lot of baggage, he’s got a trainload of baggage, we knew this when we elected him President. I don’t know, I don’t see exactly what’s going on here. Look, if he were saying things that were really devastating I would acknowledge that, I’m not trying to protect Donald Trump from anything, and I think just the fact that Trump hung out with a guy like this speaks ill of him.