Michael Cohen: I Started Trump’s Presidential Campaign. Jim Jordan: LOL.

Appearing before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, President Donald Trump’s former attorney and “fixer” Michael Cohen took credit for Trump’s 2016 presidential run.

Cohen, who’s set to serve three years behind bars for charges including fraud and campaign finance violations, told the committee that he “certainly did” start Trump’s presidential campaign in 2011. The disbarred attorney claimed he triggered the run by starting a website called ShouldTrumpRun[dot]com.

Oversight Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) found this hilarious.

“Now that’s news,” Jordan said to Cohen sarcastically. “Wow.”

“That’s correct, 2011. It was my idea,” Cohen continued confidently. “I saw a document in the newspaper that said, ‘Who would you vote for in 2012?’ Six percent of the people said they’d vote for Donald Trump.”

“Michael Cohen: the reason why Donald Trump is president is because of Michael Cohen,” said Jordan mockingly.

Cohen, undeterred, said: “So I put it into his office and I said to him, ‘Mr. Trump.’ And he said, ‘Well wouldn’t this be great.’ And that is where it all started.”

“Yeah, okay,” Jordan continued to mock Cohen. “I’m sure, I’m sure, he had never thought about anything like that until you came along.”

Way back in 1988, during an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Trump was asked by host Oprah Winfrey if he’d ever consider running for president.

Trump said he had no plans to run for the highest office in the land at the time, because he didn’t have “the inclination” and liked his work so much, but left a caveat: if things got so bad that he felt had to step in and run, he would. “If it got so bad, I wouldn’t want to rule it out totally,” he said.

Trump echoed a similar sentiment when he ran for president in 2016.

In other words, it seems Trump had even vague ideas about running for president way back in 1988. Perhaps, then, it wasn’t Mr. Cohen who can take credit for Trump’s 2016 run and eventual win.

During the hearing, Cohen accused Trump of being a racist con man.

“I know what Mr. Trump is,” he said. “He is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat.”

In a prepared statement before the hearing, the disgraced attorney claimed Trump had prior knowledge of the Wikileaks dump of DNC emails.

“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,” he explained. “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. Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of ‘wouldn’t that be great.’”

As noted by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh: this is not exactly incriminating stuff.

“Cohen does not allege that Trump orchestrated the hacking of the DNC. He does not indicate that Trump had any hand in the acquisition or publication of the material. He says only that Trump heard a rumor about it a few days ahead of time,” highlighted Walsh. “We are supposed to be morally shocked that Trump, the great villain, was pleased by the news.”

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