Article snippet: Trump loyalists are worried after his former attorney Michael Cohen's testimony to Congress led Democrats to threaten more hearings and his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un ended without an agreement. None of those developments is ruinous in isolation. But Cohen's hearing in particular dramatized the power Democrats now hold as the majority party in the House of Representatives — power that they can use to block the president’s domestic legislation and pressure his inner circle to testify. At best, Trump loyalists say, intense partisan firefights lie ahead. “We are heading into the most vicious year in American politics since before the Civil War — and the Cohen hearing only reinforced that,” Stephen Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, told The Hill. Democrats already announced they will seek testimony from Allen Weisselberg, the longtime Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer, whom Cohen cited as centrally involved in organizing hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Weisselberg, who has been with the Trump family since he began working for the president’s late father Fred Trump decades ago, could come under intense pressure to deliver any financial secrets. Democrats may also seek to bring MORE to Capitol Hill for testimony. On Friday afternoon, NBC News reported that the House Ways and Means Committee was preparing a request for President Trump’s tax returns and were considering all means necessary, “including litig... Link to the full article to read more
The Memo: Trump world faces sea of troubles | TheHill
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