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Cohen’s New Testimony Keeps Pushing Trump Back Into the Hush-Money Hole

Michael Cohen returned to House Intelligence on March 6, 2019, after already spending days telling Congress and investigators that Donald Trump was central to the hush-money and Moscow matters. The day’s significance was not a single dramatic revelation, but the cumulative damage of Cohen staying in the spotlight and signaling that there was still more to say. For Trump, that meant another news cycle dominated by the one former aide he most wanted to discredit, yet could never quite erase.

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Cohen’s New Testimony Keeps Pushing Trump Back Into the Hush-Money Hole

Michael Cohen returned to House Intelligence on March 6, 2019, after already spending days telling Congress and investigators that Donald Trump was central to the hush-money and Moscow matters. The day’s significance was not a single dramatic revelation, but the cumulative damage of Cohen staying in the spotlight and signaling that there was still more to say. For Trump, that meant another news cycle dominated by the one former aide he most wanted to discredit, yet could never quite erase.

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Cohen’s New Testimony Keeps Pushing Trump Back Into the Hush-Money Hole

Michael Cohen returned to House Intelligence on March 6, 2019, after already spending days telling Congress and investigators that Donald Trump was central to the hush-money and Moscow matters. The day’s significance was not a single dramatic revelation, but the cumulative damage of Cohen staying in the spotlight and signaling that there was still more to say. For Trump, that meant another news cycle dominated by th…

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