We already knew that, but is are there going to be any consequences for him?
So a few things came out, many things we knew but some were just confirmation or hints of where to look. I haven't read a lot of analysis and I missed more of the hearing than I'd like, but I still caught a few things.
Multiple cases of his charity organization illegally using funds. Republicans wanted to gloss over it, but there were a few examples of blatant illegal activities that frankly shouldn't be hard to prove. For instance, in one case Michael Cohen found somebody to buy a painting of Trump at an auction, gave the painting to Trump and then was repaid through the charity funds. So they have names, dates and shouldn't have trouble getting financial records with that testimony (if they haven't already).
Cohen described how Trump repeatedly avoided taxes, like with his golf courses. Multiple locations came up. Names of people who would have more details came up. Cohen made it clear that this was repeated behavior done across his properties, so expect Dems to start looking into financial records for those places and to interview those people.
Physical evidence of the Stormy payment made during his presidency. Again, illegal. Whether it's enough to change anything. Who knows.
A story about Trump and Cohen trying to get access to "a treasure trove" of catch and kill stories David Pecker. Will probably lead to Pecker being interviewed.
Trump lied about knowing Russian mobster Felix Sater. Said he wouldn't even recognize him despite Cohen explaining how that simpossible since not only did Sater have an office on the same floor as Trump, that office later became Cohen's.
Honestly, there were a lot of little things here and there. Some things that came up were blatantly illegal, but Republicans have done a great job of reframing the whole thing to be about Russian collusion - which Cohen claims he wasn't directly aware of. Reminder: Clinton was investigated for some real estate deal and was impeached because he lied about a blowjob. Claiming Trump shouldn't be impeached over any of this is "hilarious".
Oh, my favorite part, Cohen was unable to talk about his other clients as they are involved in ongoing investigations - translation: Sean Hannity is under investigation.
