Let's be clear: Michael Cohen is a great witness against Donald Trump in the latter's ongoing Manhattan trial — and a terrible person to rely on for the prosecution's case. As Trump's onetime lawyer and "fixer," Cohen was in the middle of the alleged scheme undergirding the case against the former president. At the same time, he's also a known liar, having gone to federal prison in 2019 for, among other things, lying to Congress. Trump's defense lawyer Todd Blanche tried to seize on this discrepancy during cross-examination Tuesday, albeit in a wildly scattershot fashion. "Questioning of Cohen has jumped around between lies, casting Cohen as jilted, as motivated to provide dirt to Trump to get out of prison early, and his podcast attacks," NBC News' Laura Jarrett reported from the courtroom over an hour into the cross-examination. "It's all an effort to say he can't be trusted, but it's a sprawling effort." This is a preview of Hayes Brown's latest article. Read the full column here. |
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