Lanny, he's not acting

Lanny Davis, Cohen’s legal adviser and spokesman, traveled to Capitol Hill in recent days to discuss security and other logistical issues in meetings with House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Democratic committee aides. He said he pressed Republicans on Trump’s repeated tweets about Cohen’s family — particularly his client’s father-in-law — urging them to get their party leader to tone down his rhetoric about Cohen.

  Politico

Like they have any control over him.

“I’m very concerned about the president of the United States acting like a mobster,” Davis said in a short phone interview Friday, just before an MSNBC appearance. “It’d not be any difference if the ‘don’ called somebody telling the truth a ‘rat’ and attacked the family and sent the implicit message to beware.”

Minutes later, Davis went on MSNBC to reiterate that message: “Family is out of bounds. There is only one person in this country — one president in our history — that would threaten family as a tactic to make fear of somebody he calls a ‘rat’ by telling the truth. And that’s President Trump, and the Republicans should be holding him accountable.”

They SHOULD have done that a long time ago.

Davis also said Friday that no decision had been made yet on whether Cohen will indeed appear before Congress.

“I don’t know if we’re ready to cancel,” Davis said. “He’s very fearful.”

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Rep. Gerry Connolly, a senior Oversight panel member, said his party should go back and review how Congress protected witnesses during a series of sensitive hearings they had in the 1960s on organized crime and the mafia.

“It’s not even a veiled attempt at intimidation of a witness and obstruction of the process of witnesses wanting to come forward to testify before the legislative branch of government,” the Virginia Democrat said Friday. “It’s a repugnant act on the part of the president who clearly is afraid of public testimony by Mr. Cohen under oath.”

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Davis said he’s spoken with Hill aides about the logistics of Cohen’s testimony, including keeping him protected that day.

“We’re certainly hoping to have security provided to him. Something will be done to help him get in and out,” Davis said.

But Cohen’s concerns aren’t limited to his appearance on Capitol Hill. Davis in his MSNBC appearance noted that there were Trump supporters all around as well as foreign actors who may want to do the bidding of the president, who have all but put a target on his client.

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Asked whether he thought his GOP counterparts on the committee might use their relationships with Trump to get him to back off—ranking Republican Jim Jordan and panel member Mark Meadows are close allies of the president—Connelly said no.

“Both of them have become such apologists for this president that I think they would be impervious to those pleadings,” he said.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.