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Manhattan DA to bring in ex-Trump 'fixer' Michael Cohen for more interviews as investigation heats up
January 22, 2021
Probes into former President Donald Trump's business dealings are heating up, and the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is looking to conduct new interviews with one of the president's former personal attorneys.
The New York Daily News reports that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was interviewed by Manhattan DA Cy Vance's team last week about the president's dealings with Deutsche Bank, which has for decades been the only major investment bank willing to lend him money.
<p>The DA's office also "plans to interview Michael Cohen again as part of his investigation into allegations that former President Donald Trump has committed a range of financial fraud."</p><p>Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for his role in arranging an illegal hush-money scheme involving adult film star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal.</p><p>After being sentenced, <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/8-stunning-bombshells-michael-cohens-prepared-congressional-testimony-trump/" target="_blank">Cohen testified before the House of Representatives</a> that Trump fraudulently undervalued his assets to get out of paying taxes, while at times fraudulently overvaluing his assets in order to get important loans.</p>
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Trump's new lawyer's history suggests voter fraud claims will be the center of his impeachment defense: report
January 22, 2021
Former President Donald Trump has hired Butch Bowers, a longtime Republican attorney with experience in election law, to represent him in the Senate's upcoming impeachment trial, which could begin in a number of days or weeks, POLITICO reports.
The hiring comes after Trump struggled to find a defense team since lawyers that defended him in his previous impeachment trial said the case against him is much stronger this time.
<p>Bowers was praised by some of his former Republican clients, one of which was Nikki Haley. "Butch is a good friend and a fine lawyer. President Trump is fortunate to have him on his team," Haley said through a spokesperson.</p><p>According to POLITICO, Bowers' history serving under President George W. Bush as special counsel for voting matters in the Justice Department, and as counsel in Florida for John McCain's 2008 presidential run, suggests that Trump will make his claims of a stolen election the center of his impeachment defense. </p><p>"All I can say is based on the Butch Bowers I know and respect, I would hope that he wouldn't be sucked in as a tool in advancing the president's conspiracy theories," said former client and former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford.</p><p>Read the full report over at <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/21/trump-impeachment-attorney-461240" target="_blank">POLITICO</a>. </p>
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NC Republican insists 'no one will ever convince me' Trump's election lies aren't true
January 22, 2021
A North Carolina state legislator vowed he'll never accept President Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election after insisting he's not crazy to believe the vote was stolen.
State Sen. Bob Steinburg again insisted on Facebook that he believes former president Donald Trump's unfounded conspiracy theories about the election -- whether they involve China, the CIA, the FBI or an alleged blackmail campaign against Chief Justice John Roberts -- rather than accept the assurance of numerous officials and courts that the vote was conducted lawfully, reported WRAL-TV.
<p>"I, like many of you, probably 75 million or more of you, who do not believe that Joe Biden actually was elected," Steinburg said in a video posted Inauguration Day on his Facebook account.</p><p>The TV station asked all 27 other GOP state senators whether they agreed with Steinburg, who easily won re-election in November and represents much of the state's coastal area, but only Senate President Pro Tem Phil Berger's office replied.</p><p>"Sen. Steinburg is an elected member of the North Carolina legislature and can and does speak his mind," said Berger spokesman Pay Ryan. "We are not in the business of policing the speech of other members, who are responsible only to the voters who elected them."</p><p>A reporter pressed the spokesman to say who the Senate president believes won the election, and Ryan conceded that no evidence could prove the election had been stolen from the former president.</p><p>"The Trump campaign exhausted all legal avenues to press its claims regarding the election," Ryan said. "The evidence produced in court did not meet the standard necessary for something as serious as changing the outcome of a presidential election. Joe Biden is president, and hopefully he does a good job."</p><p>Only one GOP senator, state Sen. Warren Daniel, took a follow-up call from the TV station, and he said "we need to move on" now that the election was over.</p><p>"As far as I know, everybody in America can still have their own opinion," Daniel said, "and Sen. Steinburg can have his."</p><p>That's basically what Steinburg -- who begged Trump to <a href="https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article247895815.html" target="_blank">invoke</a> the Insurrection Act and suspend civil liberties to remain in office -- said when he replied by email to a request for additional comment about Biden's election, which he said on Facebook had caused "Lady Liberty" to shed a tear.</p><p>"This election was stolen – no one – no one will ever convince me otherwise," Steinburg wrote.</p><p>"This is what I think," he added, "and if I'm not mistaken I believe free speech and having an opinion are still 'technically' legal in America. But for how much longer with the new regime is anyone's guess."</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allow="autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="476" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?height=476&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Frsteinburg%2Fvideos%2F10221951338551220%2F&show_text=false&width=267" style="border:none;overflow:hidden" width="267"></iframe></div>
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