Because attorney-client privilege is apparently no longer a thing, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former lawyer, is on Capitol Hill this week testifying against his old employer. The media tells us that his testimony is like a carpet bomb on the Trump Administration, full of explosive and damning revelations that will surely spell doom for the President. Something closer to the opposite is the case, I think.
In Cohen’s prepared remarks, he makes a series of allegations that have nothing at all to do with criminal conduct. For instance, he labels Trump a racist and accuses him of calling black people “stupid.” He also paints Trump as manipulative and conceited, claiming that Trump once organized the purchase of his own portrait so that it would be the highest-priced item at the auction. That particular anecdote strikes me as entirely believable, but it has no relevance to anything and has no place in a congressional hearing.
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