This week the country was riveted by the public testimony of Michael  Cohen, Trump’s long-time attorney and fixer, before the House Oversight  Committee — the first public testimony in the new Democrat-controlled  Congress. Cohen’s testimony overwhelmed the spectacle of Trump’s second  summit with North Korea dictator Kim Jong Un in Hanoi — which produced  no concrete results, despite a pre-planned joint signing ceremony.  Cohen, who said he is now in “constant contact” with federal  prosecutors, gave seven hours of testimony, offering an insider’s  perspective and many new details which, by week’s end, were already  leading Congressional investigators to call more witnesses and open new  areas of inquiry.

As Cohen was testifying and Trump meeting with Kim, Jared Kushner met  with the Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince MBS, then Turkish President  Recep Erdogan. Just as Kushner stayed silent during his Saudi visit on  the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Trump sided with another dictator, saying  he believed Kim played no part of the brutal torture and death of  American college student Otto Warmbier, before trying to reverse himself  the next day. During Kushner’s trip, the Times reported Trump  had ordered officials to grant his son-in-law top-secret security  clearance, overruling concerns by U.S. intelligence and former White  House Counsel Don McGahn.

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