Former Deputy Director of Speechwriting under George W Bush, Peter Wehner, unloaded on the current crop of Republicans serving in the House after watching the Michael Cohen hearing before the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.
"The Republican Party has been as corrupted by its association with Mr. Trump as Mr. Cohen was by his," the conservative wrote Wednesday in a blistering New York Times OP-ED.
And he warned his party to get on the right side of history, and fast, before it may be too late in his opinion piece.
"When this story is finally told — when the sordid details are revealed, the dots finally connected — the Republican Party will be the political and institutional version of Mr. Cohen, who squandered his integrity in the service of a man of borderless corruption," he said.
The senior fellow at a conservative think tank went on to note that "what Republicans didn’t say [during the hearing] reveals the truth about what happened at the hearing on Wednesday as much as what they did say."
He then continued: "Republicans showed no interest, for example, in pursuing fresh allegations made by Mr. Cohen that Mr. Trump knew that WikiLeaks planned to release hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016," before adding, "Republicans on the committee tried to destroy the credibility of his testimony, not because they believe that his testimony is false, but because they fear it is true."
Read the full OP-ED here.
