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Donald Trump’s chief litigator in the Get Trump case in New York landed what looked like a pivotal strike—a Perry Mason moment— against the former president’s personal lawyer-turned-prosecution-witness, Michael Cohen– catching him in a lie right in front of the jury.
In what is expected to be the final day of his testimony on Thursday, the prosecutor’s star witness was “dog walked,” as Congressman Matt Gaetz put it, through a path of Cohen’s testimony, catching him in lie after self-serving lie in testimony to show jurors that the convicted perjurer had done it again.
Trump lawyer Todd Blanche “lost his temper” with Cohen over a key conversation that Cohen had depicted as the moment he’d told Trump about finalizing a nondisclosure agreement with adult film copulator Stormy Daniels. Cohen claimed the call to the boss would bring an end to Daniels’ threats to tell the world she’d bedded the future president in 2006, the first time they’d met. Cohen testified in questioning by prosecutors that the October 24, 2016, date was to tell “the boss” he’d stopped the story from getting out and therefore ensnared Trump in the would-be conspiracy that prosecutors have claimed but never charged.
Instead, Blanche angrily and dramatically told Cohen, “That was a lie!”
In fact, Blanche had discovered that the one-minute and 36-second phone call wasn’t about that at all. Indeed, it wasn’t even a call with Trump.
Blanche presented Cohen with evidence that Cohen, in the days prior to the call, had received dozens of harassing phone calls from a 14-year-old, and that on the evening of Oct. 24, he texted [Trump bodyguard Keith] Schiller to inform him of the calls. Minutes later, according to evidence, Schiller left Cohen a voicemail, and then Cohen called him back, with a call that lasted one minute and 36 seconds.
Moments later, Cohen texted Schiller the number of the person who had been placing the harassing phone calls…
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