Possibly her contribution was important, but tbh it's also generally easy to cherry pick records to invent narratives like this.
Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. "Yes," Cohen answered.
This fraud was already documented at the time by journalists. Do you call this the "beginning", then? Also, Cohen was collaborating with authorities. Would the investigation not happen without that testimony?
Although AOC contributed there, this article is rather shallow as it misses the bigger picture where AOC was not in the center in my opinion.
I watched this live and you couldn’t be more obtuse. NO ONE else in the room was following this line of questioning. Sure reporters could have uncovered all of this eventually but she had the presence of mind to know this was under oath so it could move the prosecution along much faster.
Journalist Craig Unger at least mentioned this in 2018 in his book House of Trump, House of Putin. Likely that book is not the original source on this, so there should be some earlier one.
In 2019, Cohen, the former Trump lawyer who was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison for crimes he committed while working for Trump, testified before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.
Ocasio-Cortez again asked Cohen if the former president had ever inflated his assets. “Yes,” Cohen answered.
“Who else knows that the president did this?” she continued.
“Allen Weisselberg, Ron Lieberman, and Matthew Calamari,” Cohen answered, referring to the former Trump Org CFO, current executive vice president, and current COO, respectively.
Weisselberg was ordered to pay $1 million in penalties on Friday.
“I thank Judge Engoron for his acknowledgment of my veracity and hope this helps to expose Trump, Habba, Kise, and Robert’s never-ending lies and attacks about me,” Cohen said in a statement to Business Insider. “Truth always rises!”
James gave a nod to Ocasio-Cortez’s line of questioning when she filed her lawsuit in 2022.
“I will remind everyone that this investigation only started after Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, his former lawyer, testified before Congress and shed light on this misconduct,” James said at the time.
Cohen later testified in October during the trial, saying that Trump “arbitrarily elected” numbers when valuing his assets. “And my responsibility, along with Allen Weisselberg, primarily, was to reverse engineer” the value of Trump Organization assets, Cohen said, “to achieve the number that Mr. Trump tasked us.”
Lots of ‘burn it all to the ground’ users on lemmy I’ve found. They hate democrats so much that they end up sounding republican in the end. I try and ignore them, but there’s a handful each time a democrat is mentioned.
I invite you to embrace that Democracy is not binary, and "people who hate democrats so they (sound/are) republican, so I ignore them" is a stupid way to look at it, and causes an immense amount of harm to the society as a whole.
There’s no winning on this site. I’d love a multi-party system, but our current set-up isn’t like that. Right now I’d like to keep what very little bodily autonomy I have as a woman. I’ve voted and protested for years. I don’t care if you think I’m ’harming society as a whole’ because of my singular comment. I’m honestly done. I really can’t take this anymore. Yes, I will be voting democrat because the other option is too dire to consider, and that’s if I make it that long. I’m glad you were able to sum up my entire being due to one response to a user asking ‘what’. I’m glad you’ve laid this blame at my feet and called me stupid to boot. Every user is (hopefully) a human being and I just can’t stand how hostile everyone is.
I am an astronaut, I have been priced out of the electric guitar market for over a year, I no longer think this city was built on rock and roll. For this reason I will blah blah blah.....
(Maybe the Presidency would be better off as a quorum. Right after the guillotines get packed away and everyone’s learned once again what treason gets you.)
And unlike Schumer, she is delicate about walking the line between being against Israel's actions in Gaza and saying something stupid (IE: Israel direly needs aid to help the people suffering in Gaza!).
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