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Michael Cohen, former Trump attorney, accepts Democratic invitation to testify before Congress next month

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WASHINGTON — Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, who implicated his former boss and the now-president in a federal crime, has accepted an invitation from House Democrats to testify before the House Oversight and Reform Committee early February — just shy of a month before he must report to federal prison to serve his sentence for violating federal campaign finance law, lying to Congress, and tax evasion.

“In furtherance of my commitment to cooperate and provide the American people with answers, I have accepted the invitation by Chairman Elijah Cummings to appear publicly on February 7th before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,” Mr. Cohen said Thursday in a statement. “I look forward to having the privilege of being afforded a platform with which to give a full and credible account of the events which have transpired.”

Mr. Cummings, 67, said Thursday that his committee was “in the process of consulting with Special Counsel Mueller’s office” to confirm that Mr. Cohen’s testimony wouldn’t conflict with Mr. Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. “I want to make clear that we have no interest in inappropriately interfering with any ongoing criminal investigations,” he said in a statement.

Mr. Cohen, who served as Mr. Trump’s fixer for over a decade, once famously said that he would “take a bullet” for Mr. Trump. However, within the last several months, Mr. Cohen has turned on his former boss, offering partial cooperation to Mr. Mueller.

Mr. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison last month by a federal judge in Manhattan after entering into a plea agreement on Nov. 29 with prosecutors in the Southern District of New York. In his guilty plea, federal prosecutors did not, in exchange for his cooperation, downgrade sentencing recommendations. Mr. Cohen voluntarily offered his cooperation to Mr. Mueller and his team of assistant prosecutors.

Mr. Cohen ultimately spent over 70 hours behind closed doors with federal prosecutors — both from the Southern District of New York and members of Mr. Mueller’s team, who are probing whether the Kremlin, with or without the assistance of Mr. Trump’s campaign, sought to influence the 2016 presidential election. In response to his cooperation with prosecutors, Mr. Trump has called his former attorney, Mr. Cohen, a “weak man.”

Mr. Trump has thus-far said he did “nothing wrong,” and accused Mr. Cohen of misconduct and lying in an attempt to receive a reduced sentenced. In legal filings, federal prosecutors have not directly named Mr. Trump — referring to him as a “candidate for federal office,” and “Individual-1.”

“I take full responsibility for each act that I pled guilty to: The personal ones to me and those involving the President of the United States of America,” Mr. Cohen said last month at his sentencing hearing. “I have been living in a personal and mental incarceration ever since the day that I accepted the offer to work for a real-estate mogul whose business acumen that I deeply admired.”

When asked on Thursday whether he was concerned about his former attorney testifying to Congress, Mr. Trump said: “I’m not worried about it at all, no.”

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Trump Is Poised To Take 2024 By Storm

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Biden has unsuccessfully been able to reform any issues left by the Trump administration and quite frankly has only made it worse. Inflation and the economy is hurting everyone, especially lower income voters who ironically voted for Biden. This has set off a windstorm for Biden as his approval rating goes further down the drain. With little hopes of any major policy wins before the 2022 election, Biden’s Administration, which championed “getting things done”, has stopped before it really even got off the ground.

With 2022 around the corner we will see a slue of Republican Presidential challengers, with Trump of course, being at the center of the pack. Rumors have it that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and the like of Mitt Romney will all join the nomination, however this is only rumor and speculation. Trump however, will become the nominee. It would be hard for anyone to top someone who has already been President, even a firebrand like DeSantis, who has garnered  national support for a Presidential run.

Biden has failed so miserably that when a another Democrat attempts to challenge Trump’s economy compared what we are in now, it will be completely inexcusable. Not to mention the major social engineering the majority of parents and Americans are rejecting in terms of the LGBTQ Mafia Agenda & BLM. Biden, if anything, has completely destroyed the Democratic party’s chance of being a favorite with middle and upper-income voters, setting a disasters for the Democrats in 2024.

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Lauren Witzke: Among Several Children on Hunter Biden Laptop, Including Chris Coon’s Daughter

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Well, folks. The dam is finally breaking on what is exactly going on with the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that the corporate media has refused to cover, simultaneously big tech is clamping down attempts to use their platform to share the story. And now we know why, because it involves underage children.

This weekend, Senatorial Candidate in Delaware and America First Patriot, Lauren Witzke, has exposed the most damning allegation yet. With an official police source confirming that Chris Coon’s Daughter is one of several children on the Hunter Biden laptop.

There are other allegations going around possible connections to foreign children being on the Hunter Biden laptop as well as several children of other politicians including one of Barack Obama’s daughter.

This only further proves Joe Biden and his entire family, and Chris Coons, are completely compromised by foreign entities and domestic deep state actors within our Government. They hold no allegiance to anything but what their masters tell them to do, because at the end of the day they are at the whims of others leaking this information and publicly destroying them and their career.

We can only imagine more damning allegations are coming to break now that we have a first look at just how explosive the “Laptop From Hell”, as President Donald Trump puts it, really is.

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Trump Judges & The Purge

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I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.

That great lyric from Ice Cube has more bite and meaning in the run up to the 2020 election. Now we have the investigation of the investigators. The Mueller investigation and everything it has encompassed is now being scrutinized. We are finally looking at indictments and guilty pleas from the corrupt cabal that tried to bring down, frame, jail and impeach a duly elected, INNOCENT president and anyone in his sphere. Getting to the point of investigating the investigators has been a long hard slog.

We did not foresee how really deep and treacherous the swamp really was. You could investigate, indict and try someone like a Hillary Clinton for example, and someone of authority in that chain is a corrupt actor from the Deep State and you will then see the guilty party skate free. Or you can have a completely innocent Mike Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papodopoulos railroaded by a corrupt judge. The Michael Flynn case is the most glaring. The DOJ has dropped the case and charges against him and in an unprecedented move the judge does not drop the case, he extends it as if he is the prosecutor.

So there is a light at the end of the tunnel my friends. Donald Trump has been appointing a record number of federal judges. This is a brilliant move and somewhat frustrating and time consuming. But there is a method to the madness. Why investigate, indict and try just for a Deep State judge to let the guilty party walk free? Donald Trump has appointed over 300 judges and counting. More will be appointed to the bench and now there is a more likely chance when the guilty parties are tried, there will be justice. So there is a silver lining in this swamp covered cloud.

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By Michael Ameer

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