WASHINGTON — House Republicans defended President Donald Trump on Wednesday by painting his former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen as a dishonest felon who’s only interested in a post-prison book deal. One of their methods: putting up a sign with Cohen’s face on it that read “LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE!”Cohen, whom Trump employed for over a decade, testified before the House oversight committee on Wednesday about Trump’s dealings with Russia and his payments to women who said they had affairs with the now-president. Cohen, who was named deputy finance chair for the Republican National Committee in April 2017 and served in that capacity until last June, is set to report to prison this May. But their attacks undermined their own argument by raising a question they failed to address: If Cohen is a shady, lying criminal, why did Trump keep him on the payroll for so long? And why did the RNC ― which labeled Cohen a “convicted felon who has consistently engaged in deceptive and misleading criminal behavior” in a tweet on Wednesday ― give him such an important role?

Source: Huffington Post February 28, 2019 00:45 UTC