House Oversight Committee

Michael Cohen assails former boss Donald Trump in 7 hour US Congress testimony: 'I lied for him and I lost everything'

In a damning depiction of Donald Trump, the US president's former lawyer Michael Cohen on Wednesday cast him as a racist and a con man who used his inner circle to cover up politically damaging allegations about sex, and lied throughout the 2016 election campaign about his business interests in Russia.

Michael Cohen testimony in US Congress updates: 'Donald Trump is a racist, conman and cheat; my loyalty to him cost me everything'

There'll be much talk of a "rat," hush money for onetime paramours and the 2016 presidential campaign. But did US president Donald Trump break the law? That's the key question Michael Cohen will be expected to answer with documents on Wednesday during a Capitol Hill drama that sounds more like a mobster movie every day. Trump's formal personal lawyer and "fixer" is set to go public before a Democrat-led House panel and talk about the decade in which he would "take a bullet" for his boss.

Michael Cohen testimony in US Congress begins 10 am ET: How to watch, what to track when Donald Trump's former lawyer lashes out

Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is going to make it a terrible week for the US president as he begins a series of testimonies to US Congress about Trump's contacts with Russians, hush money payments and other "earth shattering" matters which are being talked of as a 'John Dean' moment for the current White House.

Michael Cohen will accuse Donald Trump of lying, racism and cheating in blockbuster testimony February 27

US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is expected to give a behind-the-scenes account of what he will claim is Trump's lying, racism and cheating, and possibly even criminal conduct, when he testifies publicly before a House committee on Wednesday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.