Rep. Jim Jordan on Wednesday accused the Democrats of using President Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen as a “patsy” to get at Mr. Trump.
“They just want to use you,” the Ohio Republican said to Cohen during a highly-anticipated House Oversight Committee hearing. “You are the patsy today. They want to find someone somewhere to say something so they can remove the president.”
Cohen, once Trump’s loyal attorney and fixer, has turned on his former boss and cooperated with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He begins a three-year prison sentence in May after he pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in 2017 and committing campaign finance violations while he was working for Trump.
“This is the first time a convicted perjurer has been brought back to be a star witness,” he said. “This is a first because no one else would do it.”
Mr. Jordan said Cohen’s testimony is nothing more than a show orchestrated by his attorney Lanny Davis, a longtime Hillary Clinton confidante.
• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.
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