Loyalty to Trump cost Michael Cohen everything. Republicans pay heed | Richard Wolffe

Trump’s Republicans need to ask themselves: how long are they planning to protect the unprotectable?

Donald Trump has done some strange things to the Republican party. Gone is their disgust at Stalinist tyrants from North Korea. Vanished is their outrage at deficit spending. Evaporated is their horror at a president who ignores Congress and the constitution.

But those bizarre twists are nothing compared to the screwball comedy that was the House oversight committee on Tuesday, as its Republicans grilled Trump’s former fixer, henchman and bagman, Michael Cohen.

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