Trump's Lawyer Assailed Michael Cohen's Credibility – The New York Times
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During hours of bruising testimony in the Manhattan criminal trial of Donald Trump, his defense lawyer hounded Michael Cohen about his history of lying, criminal record and testimony that the defense called bogus. The lawyer, Todd Blanche, sought to cast Trump’s former fixer as an unrepentant fabricator who had lied under oath to exact revenge.
In one moment of drama, Blanche suggested that Cohen had made up part of his testimony, expressing disbelief that Cohen could accurately recall years-old phone calls. Blanche pressed Cohen to say that one call with Trump’s bodyguard — an exchange that Cohen had testified was about the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels — was really about Cohen getting harassed by a teenage prankster.
Directly accusing Cohen of lying, Blanche said, “You can admit it.”
“No sir, I can’t,” Cohen responded. He said that he could remember the calls because he had been talking about them for the past six years.
Blanche also painted Cohen as upset over missing out on a job in the White House and asked him about conversations in which he had indicated a desire to be chief of staff.
“That was for my ego, yes,” Cohen admitted but reiterated that he had wanted to be Trump’s personal attorney.
Blanche played a portion of Cohen’s podcast in which Cohen had said that “revenge is a dish best served cold” and had concluded that he wanted Trump “to go down and rot inside for what he did to me and my family.” Despite the pressure, Cohen maintained his composure on the stand.
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