Jim Jordan says Michael Cohen is Clinton ‘patsy’ to impeach Trump

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Republican Rep. Jim Jordan charged Wednesday that President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen’s public testimony to the House Oversight Committee was a setup orchestrated by Lanny Davis, a former spokesman and lawyer to former President Bill Clinton, in a plot to impeach Trump.

Davis has served as Cohen’s attorney and adviser in recent months. Jordan, R-Ohio, said it was not a coincidence that “the first announced witness for the 116th Congress is a guy who is going to prison in two months for lying to Congress.”

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