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Ex-lawyer to former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen said his formal boss absolutely has no “guts” to testify before the January 6 panel investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress.
When asked
by CNN’s Jim Acosta Saturday if Trump “has the guts” to appear before the panel
after the committee unanimously voted to subpoena him for documents and testimony,
Cohen laughed, according to the Washington Examiner.
"The
answer to that is absolutely not," Cohen said, according to the Washington
Examiner. "He’s not coming in. He will play the song that we’ve all heard
over and over and over again. 'I want to do it. I’m going to get it done. I’m
going to sit for it. I have nothing to fear. I’m innocent.' Blah, blah, blah.
And we all know it’s absolutely untrue."
Cohen
alleged that Trump will likely use the subpoena to solicit donations through
fundraising emails.
"This
is all part of the great economic grift that is the legacy of the Trump
administration," Cohen said.
In December 2018,
Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison after he pleaded guilty to finance
crimes and lying to Congress about Trump’s business dealings with Russia. He
only served two and half years in prison doing part of his term in prison and the
other under house arrest.
In 2019,
Cohen told Congress of the Trump Organization strategy of manipulating its
asset valuations for business and tax benefits.
Former
President Donald Trump Friday dismissed the January 6 panel over a unilateral
vote issuing a subpoena for him to testify as a “committee of highly partisan
political hacks and thugs.”
Mr. Trump
dismissed the work of the committee as a “charade and a Witch Hunt”.
On Thursday
the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 violent siege at the
U.S. Capitol unilaterally voted to issue a subpoena to Donald Trump to testify
before the panel.
Responding
in a 14-page statement issued Friday and dated Thursday 13th October 2022,
Trump accused the Democrats of seeking to “destroy the lives of many
hard-working American Patriots, whose records in life have been unblemished
until this point of attempted ruination.”
Drawing parallels between “the double standard
of the Unselects between what has taken place on the “RIGHT,” and what has
taken place with Radical Left, lawless groups such as Antifa, Black Lives
Matter, andothers,” the former President said it “is startling and will never
be acceptable, even to those who will be writing the history of what you have
done to America.”
Trump
expressed “anger, disappointment, and complaint” with Congress for approving
“the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on what many consider to be a
Charade and Witch Hunt.”