Late Tuesday night, Michael Cohen's opening statement was released. You can read the entire document in PDF format here.
It is, to put it mildly, a barn-burner.
Cohen understands that he has a credibility hill to climb, so he brings receipts and attaches them to his opening statement. They include a cancelled check for money Trump paid to Cohen in 2017 to reimburse for the hush money he paid to Stormy Daniels, financial statements for 2011-2013 demonstrating how Trump manipulated his net worth depending on whether he was filing his taxes or telling Forbes how rich he is. They also include a copy of letters he was instructed to send to all of Trump's schools and the College Board threatening them with legal action if they released any grades or test results.
And, Cohen was in the room where it happened -- the room where Roger Stone told Trump Wikileaks had the emails and was going to dump them.
In July 2016, days before the Democratic convention, I was in Mr. Trump’s office when his secretary announced that Roger Stone was on the phone. Mr. Trump put Mr. Stone on the speakerphone. Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
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