# Michael Cohen's House testimony **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 27, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297 "2019-02-27T15:16:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/261 "2019-02-27T22:09:02Z")
Cohen: “I fear that even if he loses the election in 2020, there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/262 "2019-02-27T22:12:37Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is there going to be a transcript of this session? Just print this thread. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/263 "2019-02-27T22:15:01Z")
Is it just me, or does Cohen’s speaking inflections sound like Dr. Melfi from The Sopranos? (Lorraine Bracco). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/264 "2019-02-27T22:18:32Z")
Cummings with some inspiring closing remarks. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/265 "2019-02-27T22:18:36Z")
> [@Mixolydian](#): > > Is it just me, or does Cohen’s speaking inflections sound like Dr. Melfi from The Sopranos? (Lorraine Bracco). Makes sense. Both New Yorkers. Bracco actually tones her accent down in “The Sopranos.” Well, Dr. Melfi is a Jerseyite, but Lorraine Bracco is from Brooklyn. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/266 "2019-02-27T22:19:40Z")
What do y’all think of Cummings? I am not impressed. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/267 "2019-02-27T22:21:41Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > What do y’all think of Cummings? I am not impressed. He did his job well and he delivered a fiery closing address. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/268 "2019-02-27T22:22:10Z")
Dammit! I fell asleep and missed most of it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/269 "2019-02-27T22:22:26Z")
Surely I’m not the only person who noticed that Chairman Cummings just called out Jim Jordan for lying in his closing remarks, right? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/270 "2019-02-27T22:24:27Z")
A quick perusal of online comments on the hearings (overwhelmingly MAGA-friendly) found these straws being grasped at: Trump wrote the Stormy hush money check from his personal account. Therefore, nothing illegal here. (wrong) When Cohen was asked if he was aware of any collusion between Trump and the Russians, he said he wasn’t sure. AHA! NO COLLUSION! ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/271 "2019-02-27T22:25:49Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > I gotta admit, **“I didn’t say he was racist, I said he did a racist thing”** comes across as a weasel move. Either have the guts to stand by your statement, or take it back entirely. Heh. Anyone who’s even lurked in GD will recognize that as the move of a true Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/272 "2019-02-27T22:41:59Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > In Watergate, it took 2 years of investigative reporting, hearings, subpoenas and SCOTUS decisions to draw a connection between the burglars and Nixon. > What happened today would be as if John Dean walked in to the Watergate hearing with a cancelled check from Nixon to the burglars, with “hush money” on the memo line. > > I think the Stormy Daniels payoff is the smokiest of smoking guns today. Everything else is shady business practice and despicable personal behavior that we knew about already. The smokiest gun is the complete non-contesting and acceptance of the suit, by Trump, of stealing from his own charity and using it for campaign spending. It’s just that, for whatever reason, no one seems to care that Trump is proven and (in essence) pleaded guilty to stealing from veterans of the US military. ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/273 "2019-02-27T22:54:46Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Cohen: “I fear that even if he loses the election in 2020, there will never be a peaceful transition of power.” Personally, I found this to be the most chilling comment in a day full of dreadful discussion. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/274 "2019-02-27T23:00:18Z")
I missed parts and haven’t been over a ton of sources, but was there any new information that Cohen added? I mean we’ve known about his payments to Stormy, the under and over value of his and his property’s worth, the racism, the lies about the Trump Moscow tower, his hypocrisy about almost anything Obama did, his bullshit deferment from Vietnam, that he cheats on his taxes, and Don Jr is a total dipshit. I suppose I didn’t know about his hiding of Trump’s academic records, but it struck me that a vast majority of what he testified about has been already been known. I suppose I’m just hoping that now, with his testimony, there will actual investigations that will actually hold people accountable, especially for the tax stuff. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/275 "2019-02-27T23:04:41Z")
> [@Fuji](#): > > Personally, I found this to be the most chilling comment in a day full of dreadful discussion. I know that that is what Trump wants, but I still have enough faith in our govt and institutions that there will be a peaceful transition of power, regardless of Trump’s desires. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/276 "2019-02-27T23:06:08Z")
Although, let’s face it, Michael Cohen is still an untrustworthy shitweasel, even if he is now being truthful in spilling the beans about Trump. In presenting his own personal opinions, Cohen is going to focus on whatever angle will boost his tell-all book sales. Which is to say that yes, I agree that Trump is almost certainly incapable of leaving the White House in a dignified manner if he loses the 2020 election. But what Cohen prophesies _“will never be a peaceful transition of power”_ could in practice turn out to be anything from an actual declaration of martial law down to a prolonged elderly-toddler temper tantrum where the departing occupant theatrically refuses to leave and then spitefully trashes the place with overturned wastebaskets and unflushed toilets when he **does** leave. I’m not wasting my spine chills on that scenario until and unless I see how it actually plays out. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/277 "2019-02-27T23:11:53Z")
Cohen is scheduled to be back in front of the House Intelligence Committee tomorrow. Is that another public session? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/278 "2019-02-27T23:12:58Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Dammit! I fell asleep and missed most of it. Did you dream? Did it fill your dozing brain with nightmares ? Because, that is what it was like being awake through the damn thing. I was doing other stuff but hearing it in the background. It was a glimpse into the yawning darkness. Like an epic struggle between Nyarlathotep and Shubniggurath, in which there could be no winners, not even the Lurking Horror. R’lyeah has fallen. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/279 "2019-02-27T23:15:32Z")
> [@Defensive\_Indifference](#): > > Cohen is scheduled to be back in front of the House Intelligence Committee tomorrow. Is that another public session? No. Closed-door. That’s the one that’s likely to get into the Russian connections that went through Cohen (if any). ---
**Author:** ![Fuji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Fuji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuji)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297/280 "2019-02-27T23:16:13Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I know that that is what Trump wants, but I still have enough faith in our govt and institutions that there will be a peaceful transition of power, regardless of Trump’s desires. So do I. For now… But unlike just about everything else Cohen said today (which I already kinda knew he would say) this comment hit me hard from out of leftfield. Whoa. Didn’t see that one coming… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-cohens-house-testimony/830297.md?page=15)