Indications are that Michael Cohen is going to accuse Donald Trump of criminal conduct this week when he appears on Capitol Hill.

The president’s former personal attorney will appear on Congress on Tuesday for a closed-door hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. During Cohen’s public hearing on Wednesday, however, multiple reports suggest that Cohen plans to come forward with evidence and everything he knows about Trump’s business interests in Russia and his illegal hush money payments ahead of the 2016 election.

Cohen will head to prison in May for a number of financial crimes and for lying to Congress last year when he misrepresented the timeline of Trump’s interest in building a Trump Tower in Moscow. Critics are likely to use these factors to impugn Cohen’s credibility, but it’s possible that Cohen will answer questions like how much foreign influence – Russian or otherwise – overshadows the Trump family’s business dealings.

Cohen’s testimony will also undoubtedly focus on how he has incriminated Trump in campaign finance lawbreaking during the election. The president’s former attorney has claimed that his boss personally ordered him to pay Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal so they’d both keep quiet about their affairs with Trump.

Other topics that might come up with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform include questions of whether Trump has cheated on his taxes throughout his business life, and whether Cohen can provide more anecdotes describing Trump’s racism and his litany of falsehoods.

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