hush money scheme. it may very well also be a court appearance that proceeds an indictment of a former president of these united states michael cohen, donald trump s former attorney and fixer went before a grand jury in manhattan today in what may be alvin bragg s end game a years-long investigation based on hush money payments made to porn star stormy daniels payments made nearly seven years ago. here s what cohen had to say earlier today before he went in for his grand jury testimony this is not revenge, right? what is this is about accountability i don t want to see anyone, including donald trump, indicted, prosecuted, convicted, incarcerated, simply because i fundamentally disagree with them this is all about accountability he needs to be held accountable for his dirty deeds. new york times reports this, quote, the manhattan d.a. s office has already questioned at least seven other people before the grand jury, hearing evidence about the hush money deal that s accor
of all of us, i know him, he s a familiar face here and on other net, whos. it seems that alvin bragg decided it was worth the investment in corroboration and prep, because both have happened and seeing kelly anne conway and hope hicks go before the grand jury last week and seeing the preparation that s been reported, he was in for prep all day friday, i understand that he was in 12:30 today, an hour and a half before, some last-minute prep, we don t know for sure but alvin bragg seemed to have decided that what he testified all those-year-olds years ago could be corroborated. and i wonder if those are logical dots to connect, based on hicks and conway going in and the 20 sessions with bragg s office and cohen yeah, absolutely. you have it dead right you know, i very often here
jury it s not the grand jury that will decide whether to indict or not. but we know the special grand jury did not believe that. because in the report, you know, the partial report that is made public, it was unanimous that the special grand jury said there was no fraud that changed the vote in georgia. so, they by definition, if they heard that, they obviously did not believe it that doesn t mean that they found that he also lied, but given what he s saying, the sort of natural followup is, where s the beef like, where s the actual evidence and you would say that to him, you would say that to giuliani, to anyone who is trying to get them to change how they recorded the votes. you re going to be like, well, what s what are the facts, given that 60 courts said no what proof do you have this is not this is something where you don t just get to have an opinion about what happened, you actually have to prove it up
had to do this and then i think that he ultimately will let it out but he needs that piece of paper to hold up to say i tried to fight this, i tried do the right thing and then he will protect his rear end by telling the truthjammed up on lying to a grand jury what he did at the gridirontends he miffed at trump, it is what he learned by the master of trying to have it both ways. it was trump who all along his tenure has been to have it both ways we embrace democracy, for example, but we minimize what happened on january 6. we love a free and he open society, but we embrace viktor orban in hungary as a model of government we love rule and order, but not when the law is coming after us. it is i have to have this both ways to survive.
white house and understands what a bad guy trump is so it feels like there is a very small group of pence supporters to say hey, i got an idea, go to the gridiron and say trump was wrong but for gosh sakes, don t tell a grand jury what he said to you and what he was trying to do that day. and what you witnessed it is a real head scratcher for me frank, can doj use the comments there they are certainly germane to what he has been subpoenaed to testify to he described the injuries to the police officers. he described the threats to his own life did he weaken his own subpoena fight? yeah, i mean, what they can certainly do aside from hearsay concerns is ask him while he s in the grand jury, hey, look at these news reports of what you said are these accurate, yes or no.