At Trump's New York trial, his attorney tried again to shred Cohen’s previous testimony and credibility given his past conviction on perjury charges.
Michael Cohen departs his apartment building on his way to Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York.’s ongoing criminal hush-money trial on Thursday. The attorney and former fixer sat for rigorous cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers, who attempted to poke holes in Cohen’s previous testimony and cast doubt on his credibility given his past conviction on charges of perjury.
When Todd Blanche began his cross-examination of Cohen earlier this week, he asked him if he wanted to see the former president in jail, before making his questioning even more personal. “You went on TikTok and called me a crying little shit, didn’t you?”Jurors were also played a snippet of Cohen’s podcast in which he says Trump is “about to get a taste of what I went through and let me tell you it’s not fun.”.
Blanche then turned to a February 2019 series of events in which Cohen directed his lawyers to see if Trump was offering “pre-pardons” to people in his circle. “I wanted this nightmare to end,” Cohen testified. “So seeing dangled on television, I asked them is this something?”RFK Jr. Claims Biden and Trump 'Colluding' to Block Him From DebatesFour times Cohen asked for supervised early release and all four times his request was denied.
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