05-17-2024, 11:31 AM
MSNBC article on Cohen. Multiple legal experts from CNN and MSNBC trash both Cohen and Bragg after Cohen cross on Thursday.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-hails-moment-real-triumph-trump-defense-team-cross-examination-michael-cohen
MSNBC hails 'moment of real triumph' for Trump defense team during cross-examination of Michael Cohen
Trump attorney Todd Blanche accused prosecution's star witness of lying in a tense exchange
MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin expressed her astonishment towards a key exchange during the cross-examination of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in the ongoing New York v. Trump trial.
During MSNBC's coverage of the trial on Thursday, Rubin zeroed in on what the network described as the "John Grisham moment" and the "biggest point" earned by Team Trump when defense attorney Todd Blanche grilled Cohen about his communications with Trump's former bodyguard Keith Schiller.
"When he started talking about the harassing phone calls that Cohen was getting, I think a bunch of us looked at each other sort of quizzically being like, ‘What is this? Where is this going?’" Rubin said. "And then it became clear when he first brought up the text to Keith Schiller on October 24 after getting Cohen to reestablish that that was the day on which he called Schiller to reach Trump and that remained his testimony that he discussed with Trump that day, the resolution of the Stormy Daniels matter and that it was time to pay out Stormy."
"Once he connected up to the Keith Schiller text I thought, 'Oh, we're in for something here.' And indeed, we were," Rubin told MSNBC's Chris Jansing, "because Michael Cohen not only admitted that he is now less than certain about what got discussed that day and that it could have been both but he's not positive given the one minute and 30-something seconds of that phone call, but also that in eight years he had never seen that Keith Schiller text and that it was not among the things that the district attorney's office had shown him."
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"That makes the district attorney's office look sloppy in addition to making Michael Cohen seem like a self-assured either fabricator, liar or forgetful person. It casts doubt on the veracity of a ton of his testimony and not just about who he did or didn't talk to on October 24 or October 26. It sort of cast lots of his testimony in doubt, given the passage of time and makes the district attorney's office look terrible all in one breath," Rubin continued.
"This is a moment of real triumph for Todd Blanche, you can even hear it in his voice. He is not a person to get excitable very easily," Rubin added before calling it a "real point for the defense."
CNN analyst Elie Honig added that Cohen had his "knees chopped out" during cross-examination, while the New York Times' Jonathan Alter described the exchange as "pay dirt" for Trump's defense. Alter added Trump seemed happy even after the defense couldn't shake Cohen on another story about a payoff to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
"Even so, I saw Trump smiling as he whispered to one of his lawyers. It was a good day for him," Alter wrote.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-hails-moment-real-triumph-trump-defense-team-cross-examination-michael-cohen
MSNBC hails 'moment of real triumph' for Trump defense team during cross-examination of Michael Cohen
Trump attorney Todd Blanche accused prosecution's star witness of lying in a tense exchange
MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin expressed her astonishment towards a key exchange during the cross-examination of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in the ongoing New York v. Trump trial.
During MSNBC's coverage of the trial on Thursday, Rubin zeroed in on what the network described as the "John Grisham moment" and the "biggest point" earned by Team Trump when defense attorney Todd Blanche grilled Cohen about his communications with Trump's former bodyguard Keith Schiller.
"When he started talking about the harassing phone calls that Cohen was getting, I think a bunch of us looked at each other sort of quizzically being like, ‘What is this? Where is this going?’" Rubin said. "And then it became clear when he first brought up the text to Keith Schiller on October 24 after getting Cohen to reestablish that that was the day on which he called Schiller to reach Trump and that remained his testimony that he discussed with Trump that day, the resolution of the Stormy Daniels matter and that it was time to pay out Stormy."
"Once he connected up to the Keith Schiller text I thought, 'Oh, we're in for something here.' And indeed, we were," Rubin told MSNBC's Chris Jansing, "because Michael Cohen not only admitted that he is now less than certain about what got discussed that day and that it could have been both but he's not positive given the one minute and 30-something seconds of that phone call, but also that in eight years he had never seen that Keith Schiller text and that it was not among the things that the district attorney's office had shown him."
FORMER MICHAEL COHEN ADVISER: ‘HE TOLD ME HE HAD NOTHING ON TRUMP,’ STORMY NDA WAS ‘HIS IDEA’
"That makes the district attorney's office look sloppy in addition to making Michael Cohen seem like a self-assured either fabricator, liar or forgetful person. It casts doubt on the veracity of a ton of his testimony and not just about who he did or didn't talk to on October 24 or October 26. It sort of cast lots of his testimony in doubt, given the passage of time and makes the district attorney's office look terrible all in one breath," Rubin continued.
"This is a moment of real triumph for Todd Blanche, you can even hear it in his voice. He is not a person to get excitable very easily," Rubin added before calling it a "real point for the defense."
CNN analyst Elie Honig added that Cohen had his "knees chopped out" during cross-examination, while the New York Times' Jonathan Alter described the exchange as "pay dirt" for Trump's defense. Alter added Trump seemed happy even after the defense couldn't shake Cohen on another story about a payoff to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal.
"Even so, I saw Trump smiling as he whispered to one of his lawyers. It was a good day for him," Alter wrote.
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