Call to probe Cohen’s ‘perjury’

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Michael Turner is asking Attorney General Merrick Garland to probe Michael Cohen after Donald Trump’s former “fixer” admitted in an ongoing civil fraud trial that he lied to Congress.

Cohen, the 77-year-old expresident’s onetime lawyer, served a three-year prison term for lying in 2017 to a Senate panel about a Moscow real estate project and other crimes — and Turner (R-Ohio) says his latest lie may warrant new charges.

Cohen testified at Trump’s New York fraud trial on Oct. 25 that “yes” he lied in February 2019 to the House panel — a crime punishable by up to five years in prison — saying Trump didn’t ask him to inflate his personal financial statements.

Under oath before the committee, Cohen said: “Did he ask me to inflate the numbers? Not that I recall, no” — before testifying in court last month that Trump had done just that.

“Mr. Cohen, were you being honest in front of the Permanent Select Committee when you testified [in] February . . . 2019?” Trump lawyer Alina Habba asked Cohen in the civil fraud case.

“No,” Cohen said.

“So you lied under oath in February of 2019? Is that your testimony?” Habba pressed. “Yes,” Cohen replied. Cohen’s civil trial testimony “is inconsistent with his testimony before the Committee,” Turner wrote in a letter to Garland co-signed by Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY).

“I’m not concerned at all with their request,” the disbarred lawyer said in a phone interview. “They’re mischaracterizing what transpired.”

In a subsequent written statement, Cohen said he “accurately” testified to Congress in 2019 because Trump typically made his desires known in generalities, not specifics.

He added: “Stefanik and Turner continue to do Donald’s bidding in witness tampering and obstruction of justice.”