Posted on 03/01/2019 8:49:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The testimony Wednesday by former Trump attorney and convicted perjurer Michael Cohen before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform did not produce the smoking guns that Democrats were hoping for, but it did produce a prodigious amount of fake news.
Several members of the committee noted beforehand and during the hearing the oddity of Cohen testifying before a congressional committee as he's headed to prison for lying to Congress:
But it seems that Cohen wasn't the only liar.
NBC News Capitol Hill correspondent Kasie Hunt was at the hearing and reported on-air about the proceedings. After Cohen's testimony, she made a flatly false assertion about a phone conversation between Trump confidant Roger Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in response to a WikiLeaks tweet about Cohen's claims that Trump had foreknowledge of Wikileaks' DNC email drop.
Hunt attempted to refute WikiLeaks by claiming that Cohen did not testify that Stone and Assange had a phone call even though that is specifically what Cohen claimed in his written testimony submitted to the committee last night.
On page 10 of Cohen's written testimony, he unmistakably claims that there had been a phone call between the two:
"Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton's campaign," Cohen wrote.
And as WikiLeaks noted in response to Hunt's tweet, Cohen clearly claimed it was a phone call between Stone and Assange during his testimony before the committee:
nbc just being nbc, another propaganda line for deception, doing as their globalist oligarchy commands them to do. They are the enemy inside the wire ...
btt
Keep digging their dirt and exposing the Marxist RATs agenda and corruption. Exposure is what they fear the most. There are many in the Trump base with the skills to dig 24/7.
Push Back, Push Back, Expose, Expose.
Fake news faking facts.
Media outlets trying to overhype.
What it looks like inside Hotel California.
I must admit I was dumbfounded as to why he agreed to appear before Congress. I thought maybe he wanted some kind of revenge on Trump. But he also put himself on the line for more charges.
But then I saw an interesting tidbit that he may have been coerced into it because Mueller threatened to prosecute his wife, because she signed some loan documents that they allege are fraudulent related to his taxi medallions value. In that case I guess he was just trying to protect his wife and family.
But, one of the Congressmen said that it was Lanny Davis that put him up to it. This implies Lanny wanted him to smear Trump with allegations of racist and sexist comments. To be fair, Cohen didn’t support any Russia collusion BS and he also nixed the idea that Trump was being blackmailed or extorted.
In any case the Democrat questions were really very low, beneath Congress to ask about golden showers and secret video tapes etc...
The upshot is, Kasie Hunt is a liar. And a journalist. But I repeat myself. (h/t Mark Twain)
CBS This Morning NorDUH O'Donnell pulled her staff and flew to D.C. to report on the smoking gun. She was more gullible that Robin RObert's interview with Smollet. The media is pathetic.
I doubt his wife-protecting ploy was questioned...
Lying liars gonna lie about liars.
NBC is Comcast
NOTHING is lower than an Elijah SCUMmings.
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