The Democratic National Committee and Senator Elizabeth Warren both used Michael Cohen’s highly anticipated congressional testimony in fundraising pleas addressed to supporters Wednesday.
“Under oath and in an open session of Congress, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted advisors implicated him in criminal activity while he’s been in the White House,” read an email from Warren asking for donations. “Our criminal justice system is hanging on and doing its job – the truth is coming out – despite unprecedented, relentless, and potentially illegal pressure from Donald Trump and his associates in and out of government. But here’s the biggest threat right now: Donald Trump, or the next President, using the pardon power to cover up and permanently excuse this wrongdoing.”
The Democratic National Committee also sent out a fundraising text that read, “Michael Cohen’s testimony makes this clear: Trump is a threat to our country. It’s up to us to make him a one-term president.”
Cohen has been cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation since November. He appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee Wednesday to testify against Trump, comparing the president to a mobster and calling him a “racist” and “conman.” While he refused to accuse Trump of collusion with Russia, he told the committee that the president’s “desire to win would have him work with anyone.”
Cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison term soon after he was convicted of financial crimes, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress late last year.