Trump also assailed House Democrats for holding the Wednesday hearing as he was in Hanoi for his second face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of a very important summit like this is sort
(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump said his former fixer Michael Cohen “lied a lot” in his depiction of the president as a racist and con artist during dramatic testimony before a House committee.
Trump also assailed House Democrats for holding the Wednesday hearing as he was in Hanoi for his second face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
“Having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of a very important summit like this is sort of incredible,” Trump told reporters at a news conference in Hanoi on Thursday, after his talks with Kim had ended without an agreement.
Yet Trump’s disparagement of his former lawyer, who had spent much of Wednesday laying out a litany of damning allegations against him, was somewhat subdued, and he even offered faint praise of Cohen at one point.
The nationally televised hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee was the most dramatic public inquiry into Trump’s personal and business affairs since Democrats won control of the House in the November election.
