President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen plans to deliver an explosive testimony before U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday, according to a draft copy of his opening remarks to Congress.
The former so-called"fixer" for Trump — who once said he would take a bullet for the president — is set to say he is ashamed of his"misplaced loyalty" to Trump. "I am ashamed that I chose to take part in concealing Mr. Trump's illicit acts rather than listening to my own conscience," Cohen plans to say on Wednesday. "I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.
Cohen's public testimony before the House oversight committee on Wednesday is expected to include a series of remarkable allegations about the presidential campaign. In the text of his planned statement, first obtained by the New York Times late Tuesday and also reported by Reuters, Cohen will say Trump was told by Roger Stone that WikiLeaks would publish emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Cohen, who is slated to report to federal prison May 6, will also testify in a closed-door hearing with the House Intelligence Committee on Thursday. The White House has pre-emptively trashed Cohen's testimony, calling him a"disgraced felon." "Michael Cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me . He had other clients also. He was just disbarred by the State Supreme Court for lying & fraud," Trump said in a tweet on Wednesday.
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