AceBreakingNews – LATEST – Trump defense goes after Cohen; Alsobrooks beats Trone

Ace Press News From Cutting Room Floor: Published: May.16: 2024: The Hill Court News Report: TELEGRAM Ace Daily News Link https://t.me/YouMeUs2 

Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has always been viewed as an imperfect witness in the Manhattan criminal trial against his former boss about the motivations of the prosecution’s star witness.

Attorney Todd Blanche had lots to work with, and prosecutors will seek to circle back in an attempt to undo the damage.

▪ Greed? Cohen made $3.4 million with a pair of Trump-themed books.

▪ Revenge? “Yes, I would like to see” Trump convicted. “Sure,” Cohen testified.

▪ Witness flipper to get out of home confinement in New York after pleading guilty to crimes including lying to Congress? Trump’s former “fixer” freely agreed.

It only takes one determined juror to decide that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) failed to prove his criminal case against a former president — with Cohen’s testimony or any of the assertions by other witnesses, plus emails, texts and phone calls presented to support charges that then-businessman Donald Trump hatched a scheme in 2016 to create false expense records to hide payments he authorized to two women who might have revealed they had sex with him. Cohen says Trump used him as the willing middleman to buy the silence of an adult film personality and a former Playboy Playmate during Trump’s presidential bid.

Trump denies all charges, including the alleged sexual encounters.

Cohen, now disbarred, testified he did Trump’s bidding as a willing member of the “cult” of Trump. Regrets took a while to set in. It wasn’t until a decade had passed, after his family pleaded with him, after the FBI raided his office, apartment and hotel room, that he decided to turn on Trump, Cohen testified.

The Hill’s Niall Stanage: Trump lawyers vs. Michael Cohen, five takeaways.

The former president sat through Cohen’s testimony with his eyes shut, seemingly in meditation. Under a gag order and a judge’s admonishments to remain silent in the courtroom, Trump obliged. But in the court of public opinion, the former president assembled an army of elected Republicans and former primary opponents to spin his messages to the news media.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who recently enlisted Trump to serve as a political shield against his own conservative GOP detractors in Washington, showed up in Manhattan on Tuesday. Johnson, second in line to the presidency, echoed the former president’s familiar complaints, despite the chances that Trump could be found guilty of crimes or rejected by voters in November. His New York visit undoubtedly won him points with the former president.

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