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The 22 most bonkers moments from Michael Cohen’s wild testimony.

President Trump&#39;s former lawyer and &quot;fixer&quot; Michael Cohen testified before Congress on his decade in the service of the Trump Crime Family Organization, and it lasted a short 7.5 hours.&quot;Congressional testimony&quot; is the formal phrase for &quot;spilling the tea,&quot; and Cohen is revealed a lot, namely that everything you assume about the president is true: he is a racist who loves crimes.Republicans on the committee did possible to make sure that Cohen&#39;s testimony about Trump was about Cohen instead of Trump, and it lead to some wild theatrics.Here are the most bonkers moments from the hearing so far.1. Republicans kicked off the hearing by arguing that there shouldn&#39;t be a hearing.Out of the gate, GOP demands Cohen hearing be canceled/postponed. pic.twitter.com/ZXf6HFdm4d&mdash; Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 27, 2019 They&#39;re clearly not at all nervous about what Cohen has to say.2. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) argued that the whole hearing is a conspiracy concocted to appease billionaire Tom Steyer, who wants to impeach Trump. The congressman in action. GiphyJordan, in addition to being one of Trump&#39;s staunchest allies in the House, was accused in a class-action lawsuit of looking the other way when the Ohio State University wrestling team doctor sexually abused the athletes. Jordan was the assistant wrestling coach for eight years, and clearly has Paterno instincts.3. Cohen opened up his prepared testimony with a thesis that should be the Democratic nominee&#39;s slogan in 2020: I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.    pic.twitter.com/rA8beODJGC &mdash; Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) February 27, 2019 4. The former &quot;fixer&quot; said that collusion is no illusion: He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails. Giphy5. Cohen also suggested that Trump knew about the infamous Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer, getting suspicious when Don Jr. got so physically close to Trump&#39;s desk. Sometime in the summer of 2017, I read all over the media that there had been a meeting in Trump Tower in June 2016 involving Don Jr. and others from the campaign with Russians, including a representative of the Russian government, and an email setting up the meeting with the subject line, &ldquo;Dirt on Hillary Clinton.&rdquo; Something clicked in my mind. I remember being in the room with Mr. Trump, probably in early June 2016, when something peculiar happened. Don Jr. came into the room and walked behind his father&rsquo;s desk &ndash; which in itself was unusual. People didn&rsquo;t just walk behind Mr. Trump&rsquo;s desk to talk to him. I recalled Don Jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which I could clearly hear, and saying: &ldquo;The meeting is all set.&rdquo; I remember Mr. Trump saying, &ldquo;Ok good&hellip;let me know.&rdquo; *cue &quot;Cat&#39;s in the Cradle&quot;*6. Trump was also implicated in a domestic conspiracy to sway the election&mdash;committing campaign finance violations to conceal his affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels.These are the crimes for which Michael Cohen is going to jail. Donald Trump is still president.7. Cohen brought receipts, in the form of checks, showing that Trump directed the payments.My favorite receipt. Showing a felony campaign finance violations. @MichaelCohen212 #cohentestimony #cohen #receipts pic.twitter.com/Y7UeFEFPTj&mdash; ❄💙Snow Queen💙❄ (@QueenBeezBuzz) February 27, 2019 &quot;Thirty five thousand dollars and no cents,&quot; complete with Trump&#39;s heart monitor of a signature.8. Cohen said &quot;sh*t&quot; in Congress!!!GiphyCohen swearing was funny, but the context of the dirty word was not. He described some of Trump&#39;s most racist comments, which are as racist as his policies:Cohen on claim that Trump is racist: “While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. And, he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid” https://t.co/v4EeW4fQiI pic.twitter.com/XwCePBCC3G&mdash; CNN (@CNN) February 27, 2019 9. He said that Trump&#39;s presidential campaign was just a massive &quot;infomercial&quot; to Make His Brand Great Again and that his eye was on the prize: a Trump Tower in Russia.Michael Cohen: &quot;Donald Trump is a man who ran for office for make his brand great — not to make our country great. He had no desire of intention to lead this nation — only to market himself and to build his wealth and power&quot; https://t.co/ij0AmYP27T pic.twitter.com/nhqltvAu0g&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) February 27, 2019 10. Cohen testified&mdash;and provided proof&mdash;that he threatened Trump&#39;s alma maters and the College Board with legal action if they ever released his grades or SAT scores.Yup, Trump&#39;s obsession with President Obama&#39;s grades is Freud 101. Cohen has letters he sent to the schools Trump attended threatening to sue them if they released his grades. THERE IS ALWAYS A TWEET pic.twitter.com/WVzOjWct5t&mdash; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 27, 2019 9. Cohen implied that the Trump Organization, and therefore the Trump family, and therefore the Trump campaign, were compromised by a foreign adversary because they were courting a deal in Russia. NBD.Rep. @DWStweets: If Mr. Trump and his daughter, Ivanka and son, Donald Jr. were involved in the Russian/Trump Tower deal, is it possible the whole family could be conflicted or compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? Cohen: Yes. pic.twitter.com/cwHKY7obKP&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2019 10. Cohen said he can&#39;t answer whether or not Trump colluded, but he can say that Trump&#39;s back-and-forth compliments with Vladimir Putin was fishy. And it&#39;s only gotten fishier! Gfycat11. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) brought in a black person to try and prove that Trump is not racist. Cohen only reiterated his point.OMG -- @RepMarkMeadows displays a black Trump admin official, Lynne Patton, to push back on Cohen&#39;s claim that Trump is racist.&quot;Ask Ms Patton how many black people are executives at the Trump Organization? The answer is zero,&quot; Cohen says. 🔥 pic.twitter.com/UV915dYEbV&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2019 12. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) put up a picture of Cohen&#39;s face with &quot;liar liar pants on fire,&quot; because Congress is a kindergarten.There is a &quot;Liar Liar Pants on Fire&quot; exhibit poster on the Congressional hearing floor. We are truly in the dumbest timeline. pic.twitter.com/x76AlJ2Sqf&mdash; Chris Strider (@stridinstrider) February 27, 2019 13. Cohen berated the Republican members of Congress who are working to protect Trump, telling them that he is their future. Damn.Cohen to GOP lawmakers: &quot;I did the same thing that you&#39;re doing now. For ten years. I protected Mr. Trump for ten years.&quot; His warning to them: &quot;The more people that follow Mr. Trump -- as I did blindly -- are going to suffer the same consequences that I&#39;m suffering.&quot; pic.twitter.com/vGXvGMXWxC&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 27, 2019 14. He revealed that Trump is being investigated for even more crimes in New York, because you can never have enough crimes!Rep. Raja asks &quot;is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act regarding Donald Trump we haven&#39;t discussed today?&quot;COHEN: &quot;Yes-and those are part of the investigation being looked at by the Southern District of New York.&quot; Prediction: SDNY is going to bring charges soon, folks. pic.twitter.com/KIAczT6wvC&mdash; Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) February 27, 2019  15. He confirmed that Trump was so close to convicted Russian mobster and FBI informant Felix Sater, that Sater had an office on Trump&#39;s floor.Michael Cohen confirms Felix Sater had an office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, which is as Cohen says “Mr. Trump’s floor.” pic.twitter.com/cxtkBNmkZy&mdash; TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 27, 2019 16. Speaking of mobsters...Trump speaks like a mobster.Cohen: &quot;[Trump] doesn&#39;t give orders. He speaks in code. And I understand that code.&quot;I was once assigned to FBI Organized Crime Squad in Queens, NY. Can&#39;t begin to number amount of Mob cooperators who described their abilities to interpret Mob Boss&#39;s orders in exact same manner.&mdash; James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) February 27, 2019 17. He acts like a mobster, too.Rep. Speier: How many times did Trump ask you to threaten someone on his behalf?Cohen: “Quite a few times”Speier: “50 times?”Cohen: “More”Speier: “100 times?”Cohen: “More”Speier: “200 times?”Cohen: “More”Speier: “500 times?”Cohen: “Probably” https://t.co/L5Jil3RyHD pic.twitter.com/oo0w0aP6NF&mdash; CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 27, 2019 18. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) straight up called lying about the Stormy Daniels payments &quot;financial fraud.&quot; We hope Trump shares a cell with Billy McFarland.  .@RoKhanna: With regard to the Stormy Daniels payment, are you telling us that President Trump directed a criminal conspiracy with his son &amp; the Trump Organization to commit financial fraud?  COHEN: Yes  KHANNA: Is this being investigated by SDNY?  COHEN: I&#39;d rather not say. pic.twitter.com/g6WWwep5WW &mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2019 19. Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) clarified for the congressional record that Trump still be racist even though he has a black friend..@AyannaPressley: Would you agree that someone could deny rental units to African Americans, lead the birther movement, refer to the diaspora as “sh*thole countries” and refer to white supremacists as “fine people,” have a black friend and still be racist? Michael Cohen: Yes. pic.twitter.com/DS1GvubGBl&mdash; CBS News (@CBSNews) February 27, 2019 Giphy&quot;How can I be racist if I have black people living on my property?&quot; -Thomas Jefferson20. Rep. Rashida Tlaib called out Rep. Meadows for using a black woman as a prop (see #11), and Meadows absolutely lost his sh*t.Meadows angrily accuses Tlaib of racism for calling him racist pic.twitter.com/4Wj6FcJO6l&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 27, 2019 &quot;How DARE you call my racist stunt racist,&quot; he basically said.&quot;I have members of my family who are people of color!&quot; he literally said.Because this is America, the women of color (Tlaib and Pressley) had to apologize to him. So to recap: two (2) people of color had to spend ten (10) minutes comforting one (1) white guy after he was called out for doing something that was racist, after he was about to start crying for doing said racist thing. Brought to you by America, 2019.&mdash; Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 27, 2019 21. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (heard of her?) successfully got Cohen to make the case for subpoenaing Trump&#39;s tax returns..@AOC: Would it help for the committee to obtain federal and state tax returns from the president and his company?Michael Cohen: I believe so.Ocasio-Cortez is really good at this. pic.twitter.com/75wCOt5xeX&mdash; Public Citizen EVERY LAST VOTE MUST BE COUNTED (@Public_Citizen) February 27, 2019 House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has the power, and oh, it is on.Giphy22. In his closing statement, Cohen warned that if Trump doesn&#39;t lose in 2020, &quot;there will never be a peaceful transfer of power.&quot;Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen: I fear that if Donald Trump loses the 2020 election, there will &#39;never be a peaceful transfer of power.&#39;MORE: https://t.co/sKIXYcWpqu #amagenda pic.twitter.com/gh8Gz8gGJv&mdash; Sky News Australia (@SkyNewsAust) February 27, 2019 Sleep well, everybody!

President Trump&#39;s former lawyer and &quot;fixer&quot; Michael Cohen testified before Congress on his decade in the service of the Trump Crime Family Organization, and it lasted a short 7.5 hours.  &quot;Congressional testimony&quot; is...