MSNBC: Todd Blanche's Cross-Examination of Michael Cohen

 

Source:MSNBC- left to right: Witness Mike & Defendant Don.

"Robert Ray, a former member of former President Trump's first impeachment legal team, joins our legal panel to share his thoughts on how he thinks the defense team is doing so far in Michael Cohen's cross-examination." 

From MSNBC

"The cross-examination of Michael Cohen continues in former President Trump's New York hush money trial. MSNBC legal analyst Chuck Rosenberg, New York Law School professor Anna Cominsky and criminal defense attorney Duncan Levin join Ana Cabrera and José Díaz-Balart to weigh in." 

Source:MSNBC- left to right: Defendant Don & Witness Mike.

From MSNBC

As my colleague Fred Schneider pointed out earlier today: 

"As far as CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who I think is an excellent interviewer, especially in one-on-one interviews, I think he's made a lot out of Todd Blanche catching Michael Cohen in previous lies from back in 2016. 

This is Manhattan, unless you are just waking from like a 10 year coma or something, how to do you not know the fact that Michael Cohen is a well-known liar? This is a Manhattan jury, that includes two lawyers on it. Maybe during the 2nd part of Todd Blanche's cross-examination, he'll try to catch Michael Cohen making false statements to this jury during this case. But that hasn't happened yet. 

The question is whether or not Mr. Cohen is telling the truth right now. And most of his testimony has already been corroborated by witnesses, who've worked for Donald Trump in the past." 

From The New Democrat

I'm thinking that maybe CNN anchor Anderson Cooper should have interviewed attorney Robert Ray today, because they seem to have the same observations here. That it's somehow a big deal that Donald Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche got Michael Cohen to admit under oath, to a Manhattan jury (by the way) that Michael Cohen lied before. As if this Manhattan jury has been asleep the last 5-10 years while this hush money scheme was going on and Michael Cohen was convicted about lying about his role in it. 

Look, we know what the Trump defense is going to be here. I think it's obvious that they're no longer playing for an acquittal because they're not doing a damn thing, at least yet, to try to contradict that prosecution's case. They're essentially just stipulating, without admitting the prosecution's case. But they seem to think that they can find one juror who won't believe Michael Cohen and get a hung jury out of that. And perhaps ruin the prosecution's chances of a retrial by trying to destroy Michael Cohen on the witness stand. 

But if you are the prosecution you just say that almost everything that Michael Cohen has said under oath to this jury, has already been corroborated by other witnesses who used to work for the defendant. And the defense hasn't even tried to dispute any of that. And they have nothing to show that Mr. Cohen is lying them right now. Plus, all the paperwork and why the hush money scheme was covered up in the first place, which was to prevent the American voters from finding out about it, before the 2016 election.

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