Michael Smerconish & Jeffrey Toobin: Michael Cohen On Cross Examination

Source:Michael Serconish talking about Defendant Don & his one-time lawyer for 10 years, who worked for Mr. Trump at Trump Organization, in Manhattan, New York, Michael Cohen. DJT obviously liked & trusted Cohen enough to have him as his personal attorney for 10 years.

"Crossed" 

From Michael Smerconish

"Donald Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche began his confrontation with Michael Cohen by reminding the former fixer of his own words. CNN’s Anderson Cooper and his political panel discuss." 

Source:CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin.

From CNN

Just to talk about what Michael Smerconish said for a minute, perhaps a paragraph and then I'll get into the CNN analysis as well. 

Michael Smerconish is already talking like he's expecting a felony conviction here. He tries to play himself as this independent contrarian who always talks as if: "We just don't know what's going on here" and tries to argue issues from both sides. So he speaks in code a lot and you have to try to dig though that to figure what he actually thinks about these issues. But he's already saying: "Would it really matter if Donald Trump is convicted? Would that affect the presidential election at all?" I don't think he's talking like that, if he's expecting an acquittal or a hung jury. 

As far as the CNN crew, Michael Moore (no, not that Michael Moore) whose a former U.S. Attorney in Georgia, is arguing that the Manhattan District Attorney hasn't proven their felony charges against Donald Trump, because they haven't proven intent on DJT's part to commit the election and business fraud crimes. But the fact is, Trump and company tried to cover up this whole scheme: 

David Pecker cooperated with the Manhattan DA to avoid prison time himself. 

Michael Cohen went to prison for lying about his role in this scheme. 

The Manhattan DA has already established motive for this scheme which was to prevent the public from finding out about it, before the 2016 election. Not because DJT was worried about his wife and son finding out about it. 

And then Donald Trump was in on all of this and not just approved of the plan, but made the payments to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal. 

You can even argue that the Manhattan DA has proven money laundering on this, because DJT and company were hiding money to be used for an illegal campaign contribution to the Trump Campaign.

Anytime that you can prove that a criminal defendant was trying to cover up crimes, perhaps their own crimes, that in of itself is proof of knowledge of guilt on their part. Because you are showing to the jury that the defendant was worried about being prosecuted for what they were doing and didn't want to get caught, so they tried to cover it up. I think that this case is the perfect example of the cover up of the crime being worst than the crime itself.

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