Cohen told the House Oversight Committee that Trump directed him last year to lie about hush payments made to a porn actress to silence her claims of an affair with Trump. “Today, I am here to tell the truth about Mr. Trump,” Cohen told the nationally-televised hearing. “That’s what his hope was, to intimidate me.”No evidence of collusionBut on the key issue of whether Trump worked with the Russians to get himself elected — Cohen delivered no knock-out blow. “Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia,” he said. He also said he believed Trump was informed ahead of time about a June 2016 meeting between his campaign and a Russian lawyer peddling “dirt” on Clinton.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 27, 2019 21:33 UTC