TOWNHALL MEDIA
Posted on 05/16/2024 9:36:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
TOWNHALL MEDIA
Warning to the New York County District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his people running the prosecution of former President Donald Trump: When you've lost Anderson Cooper, you're in trouble. Cooper commented Thursday on Trump's team cross-examining "star witness" Michael Cohen, and he wasn't happy with the outcome. Watch:
WATCH: CNN’s Anderson Cooper left stunned by Trump's attorney's cross examination of Michael Cohen:
"It was incredible... lawyers want to build a box around the witness & slam it shut--that's what Todd Blanche did to Cohen... it was an extraordinary cross... Cohen was cornered… in... a lie" pic.twitter.com/d3aznuKvhS— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) May 16, 2024
Some of Cooper's more interesting observations included:
...on cross-examination, the lawyers want to kind of put the witness in a... build a box around the witness and then slam it shut. That's what Todd Blanche did to Michael Cohen. The story that Todd Blanche went through, the sequence of events, uh, of this phone conversation, that Michael Cohen had testified to previously, you know, that he had had this consequential phone conversation with Donald Trump, it was a 90-second phone conversation, I believe it was October 24th, was (sic) the date that it was testified to, around 8 PM or so at night, but Todd Blanche, on his cross-examination today, went and kind of looked at the transcripts and text messages that Michael Cohen had received and sent before that time frame, and there had been this series, I guess, of crank calls that Michael Cohen had received that turned out to be from some 14-year-old, there was an exchange of messages between the 14-year-old and Cohen, and then Michael Cohen texts Keith Schiller at like 7:50-something or 7:48 PM, saying "hey, I've got some dope has been harassing me, I got the person's phone number, who can I talk to?"
Cohen then testified, according to Cooper, that Keith Schiller had directed Cohen to call him — this was supposedly the call in which the discussion about going ahead with payments to Stormy Daniels took place, which seems an odd juxtaposition.
More from Cooper:
It was an extraordinary cross-examination by Todd Blanche, and, you know, Michael Cohen's, throughout the day, when Michael Cohen was cornered when he found himself in a corner, he suddenly has a pattern of not understanding the question that's being asked, continuing, I mean, one might say he's trying to buy time, trying to figure out how he wants to answer, but he definitely starts to, you know, have Todd Blanche repeat questions, "I don't understand what you mean," and "I'm confused by the question," but this time, Michael Cohen was cornered, in what appeared to be a lie, I think to many in the room, and had to adjust his memory of what he had just testified to on Tuesday.
It is belaboring the obvious to note that Anderson Cooper is scarcely a Trump ally, nor would he be likely to report on Cohen's testimony and Blanche's cross-examination developing in Trump's favor unless it was so lopsided a performance as to make any other observations downright foolish.
Previously on RedState: Tuesday at Trump's Trial - Cohen Cross-Examined (Trump Trial - Day 17)
Blockbuster Appearance From His Former Attorney Blows Hole Through Michael Cohen's Testimony
While the New York "hush money" trial of Donald Trump still has a way to go, it's beginning to look like the prosecution's star witness was anything but. This case appears to have been built around Cohen's testimony — Cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying to a financial institution, among other charges — and who is being taken apart by Trump's legal team.
Given a New York judge and a New York jury, that may not be enough. But all it would take is one juror with a conscience, one juror who is actually committed to the legal principle of "beyond a reasonable doubt," and the result is a hung jury — and there's little chance, even if DA Bragg decides to try the case again, that it could happen before November's election.
Stay tuned, and if you aren't reading Susie Moore's regular updates on this case, you should be.
Too bad there were no cameras in the courtroom.
FROM SUSIE MOORE’s REPORT ... read it full here :
The bottom line is this: The prosecution needs Cohen’s testimony to make their (already highly suspect) case against Trump. But not only is Cohen a known and proven liar with an unmistakable axe to grind, he was caught playing fast and loose with the facts in this very matter. He’s the person least deserving of being cut any slack. Will that matter to the jury?
We may find out sooner than expected. As things wound down on Thursday afternoon and the attorneys advised the court of what witnesses and evidence they have left, it became apparent that evidence may be concluded as early as Monday. The defense expects to finish its cross-examination of Cohen on Monday morning.
The prosecution will have a brief redirect and does not plan to call any additional witnesses for its case-in-chief. The defense has not made a final determination as to whether Trump will testify (and, in my view, they’d be utter fools to put him on the stand given how things have gone).
Their only definite witness is an expert regarding the Federal Election Commission — and his testimony will be significantly restricted per the court’s prior rulings. Judge Juan Merchan advised the attorneys to be prepared to present their closing arguments on Tuesday if the testimony wraps on Monday.
They know Trump won’t be convicted, they just wanted to air all of Trump’s dirty laundry in the hopes it turns off voters.
if you are building a case around the testimony of a convicted serial liar, you know you’re on thin ice to begin with. But to achieve the purpose of this charade, they do not need a conviction. They have made their point by smearing Trump, impairing his ability to campaign, costing him a lot of money, generally muddying the waters of the election.
Anderson Cooper is looking more and more like a drivers ed teacher.
But PBS on my Google news feed says Cohen did good?😆
I want to buy that former 14-year old a dinner!
Discovery is a b!tch.
Electronic discovery is an enormous, rabid, female canine with perpetual PMS.
You’re right.
They’re going to simply say, “Hey, we really didn’t need the testimony of Stormy and Cohen to prove our case.”
Trump WILL be CONVICTED.....think of ALL THOSE DEMOCRAT JURY MEMBERS!
Why isn’t Costello on the list of witnesses for the defense?
Stormy Daniels AND Michael Cohen ... these two pieces of filth are the key witnesses for the prosecution. Tells you something about the law in New York State.
On “The Five,” a Fox News show, they said the jury reacted to Cohen’s Thursday testimony. Someone (not sure who, maybe Jeanine Pirro) said the jury had listened in a non-chalant on way earlier, but on Thursday they looked at each other...
I’ve read everyone’s comments on this thread and I think you all have valid points. However it makes me think what Trump says is true true he’s just in the way what are they gonna do when they have their way with us look at how crooked and crazy these people are Thank God my husband bought more ammo a few years back. I’m serious. God bless America.
The outcome has already been decided which is why Bragg is phoning it in. No prosecutor in their right mind would have ever brought a case in this matter, yet Bragg decided to let NYC crime skyrocket in order to bring 34 counts of... well nothing against Trump.
There is no evidence, no reliable witnesses and no precedent in which a case like this was ever brought before the courts, with the exception of the case against Trump in Georgia. Which is also bogus.
This whole thing has been a clown show right from the start.
Corrupt DA’s sleeping with the unqualified prosecutors they hired and admitting to a campaign finance felony while on the stand.
A NY Case that relied on nothing more than disbarred proven liar Michael Cohen about something the SCOTUS has already ruled is not a campaign finance violation anyway.
A documents case in which the government admitted to tampering with evidence - then lying about it....a case in which their boy Resident Biden was flagrantly guilty and they just waived it off and refused to prosecute.
Another farce of a case in the DC Swamp in which the special counsel is a sleazeball who had previously been humiliated by the SCOTUS to the tune of 9-0 and who was never lawfully confirmed to his post anyway?
“The bottom line is this:”
Tell me this bottom lie because I haven’t figured it out yet. What was Conen’s lie?
Michael Cohen was brought in to testify because Joe Isuzu was otherwise engaged. Timing is everything,
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