Article snippet: MORE’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen testifies in public. The stakes are high for Cohen’s appearance before the House Oversight and Reform Committee. According to a New York Times report on Tuesday, he will accuse Trump of potentially criminal conduct as well as the use of racist language. His testimony could embarrass the president in the middle of Trump’s Hanoi summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — and might provoke a volcanic response. But if Cohen’s testimony will inevitably garner plenty of headlines and airtime, will it have any substantive political impact? Trump is a famously polarizing figure and his approval ratings have shifted around within a relatively narrow range throughout his tenure. Cohen looks like an unlikely figure to change that — unless he has hard evidence to substantiate his charges. Cohen is testifying shortly before he is due to start a three-year jail term. One of the offenses to which he pled guilty is lying to Congress. engaged in threatening behavior toward reporters. The president’s allies are engaged in a full-court press to demolish any vestige of credibility on Cohen’s part. “The first thing that Democrats organize after they take over control of the House of Representatives is to bring forward a known liar and perjurer, who has been convicted of lying to the very committees that he is going to be testifying to,” said David Bossie, a close Trump ally who was the president’s deputy campaign manager in 2016. Bossi... Link to the full article to read more