MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin called Trump lawyer Todd Blanche’s grilling of Michael Cohen a “moment of real triumph” for the defense team. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Published May 18, 2024
For those who’ve been following New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money trial against former President Donald Trump by now, one thing has become very clear even to some of Trump’s harshest critics — this case is not about justice; it’s about a vendetta.
The star witness in the case, Michael Cohen, is a disbarred and disgraced former Trump lawyer who plead guilty to tax evasion, bank fraud, campaign finance violations, and lying to Congress, per Fox News.
Pundits, legal experts and even traditionally anti-Trump voices have openly questioned whether Cohen, labeled a “serial perjurer” and “grifter” by some, can be believed.
The credibility of Cohen is crucial for prosecutors seeking to convince jurors that Trump falsified records to conceal reimbursements for a $130,000 payment made in 2016 to adult actress Stormy Daniels in exchange for her to remain silent about an alleged tryst with Trump.
The former president faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records over this issue and has denied all wrongdoing.
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SOURCE: www.westernjournal.com
RELATED: MSNBC hails ‘moment of real triumph’ for Trump defense team during cross-examination of Michael Cohen
Trump attorney Todd Blanche accused prosecution’s star witness of lying in a tense exchange
Published May 18, 2024
MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin expressed her astonishment towards a key exchange during the cross-examination of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in the ongoing New York v. Trump trial.
During MSNBC’s coverage of the trial on Thursday, Rubin zeroed in on what the network described as the “John Grisham moment” and the “biggest point” earned by Team Trump when defense attorney Todd Blanche grilled Cohen about his communications with Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller.
“When he started talking about the harassing phone calls that Cohen was getting, I think a bunch of us looked at each other sort of quizzically being like, ‘What is this? Where is this going?’” Rubin said. “And then it became clear when he first brought up the text to Keith Schiller on October 24 after getting Cohen to reestablish that that was the day on which he called Schiller to reach Trump and that remained his testimony that he discussed with Trump that day, the resolution of the Stormy Daniels matter and that it was time to pay out Stormy.”
“Once he connected up to the Keith Schiller text I thought, ‘Oh, we’re in for something here.’ And indeed, we were,” Rubin told MSNBC’s Chris Jansing, “because Michael Cohen not only admitted that he is now less than certain about what got discussed that day and that it could have been both but he’s not positive given the one minute and 30-something seconds of that phone call, but also that in eight years he had never seen that Keith Schiller text and that it was not among the things that the district attorney’s office had shown him.”
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SOURCE: www.foxnews.com
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Published May 16, 2024
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