Cohen's testimony suggests a strategic step of persecution in the Hush Cause of Hist (2024)

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On Monday, former Trump fixer Michael Cohen started to testify against his former chief of New York Hush Money Trial.were not expectedareAlmost as explosiveLike remarkable from last weekStormy Daniels widespread, there were still some fireworks with fireworks early in the afternoon, where Cohen wasted the details of his alleged conversations with Trump Over Daniels.

Cohen described a conversation that he says with Trump in 2011 when Trump is considering an earlier race to the presidency that he never went through, and a version of Daniel's story about their alleged sexual meeting leaked on a gossip called The Dirty.

"He told me that he played golf with Big Ben Roethlisberger, the football player, and they had met Stormy Daniels and others there, but she found Mr.Trump, and that women prefer Trump, even one as Big Ben," "Cohen went on.Repeatedly accusedof sexual abuse, although he has not been convicted of a crime).

When Cohen asked if the sexual encounter had actually taken place, everything that Trump said, "She was a beautiful woman."Cohen said Karen McDougal had taken place.

Apart from the absurdity of Trump's bragging, the story seemed to strengthen the stories of previous witnesses - including Daniels and Hope Hicks - as they also called Roethlisberger who met Trump and Daniels.

More foreskin from the prosecutor's perspective, however, was Cohen's report on his conversations with Trump in the days that followAccess to HollywoodTape was released and while Cohen worked feverishly to prevent the history of Daniels from being released.

Cohen said that around October 10, a few days laterAccess to HollywoodTape was released, Trump raged against him because he did not solve the problem in 2011.According to Cohen, Trump told him to "just take care of it", and he was worried about what it would mean for him in the polls when the Daniels' story came out.

"This is really a disaster - women will hate me," Cohen Trump quoted.

Again, the absurdity of Trump's thinking that his attempts with an adult filmmaker would be seen as "cool" under "Boys", this is a curse certificate of persecution trying to prove that all Cohen, Trumpog National Enquirer Inquirerdid to coverThese stories were performed as an illegal campaign contribution to promote Trump's election provider instead of his family, as Trump's lawyers claimed.

According to Cohen, Trump couldn't worry about what it meant for his family.Trump instructed Cohen to try to postpone any deal to DanielspastThe election, so she never had to be paid.According to the testimony of the former lawyers.

Cohen asked Trump how it would go "above" like in: what did Melania think?

Although this was not at the same level as the fully widespread category 4, Daniels brought to the stand last week, it was at least a number of revelations of category 2 level., only by those who appeared: Trump had his biggest entourage in court so far, including Eric Trump, Sens.Tommy Tuberville and J.D.Vance, the lawyer of Iowa and Alabama and the state of Island Rep.(Both Malliotakis and Trump came from the performances of the morningJoe Piscopo Show.)

Apart from Eric, however, the special entourage of Trump was all about after an incredibly dry morning meeting, where Cohen actually continued the testimony of the last week presented by other witnesses, confirmed his own parts in them.Case and tweeted the mediaWith the help of Trump's boredomOr sleep to suggest that he is old and notes: "I am 39 years old and I have been here for 26 minutes and I fall asleep."

Vance of course missed the late morning/early afternoon of the fireworks, all of whom took place after he and the rest of the conference delegation left (most of them, including Vance, returned to the testimony of the afternoon.)

The boring early morning recitation of the previous three weeks testimony seemed strategic from the district lawyer Alvin Bragg's team.In the affirming witness, public prosecutors can reduce the damage to the fact that their star, Cohen, is a deeply defective witness with a series of criminal beliefs in his past, including for perpetrators and with a huge ECS slip against Trump.

The Bragg team also seems to have played well by letting Cohen go for second place instead of last year.consistencyOn certain points, as if he told the truth to federal public prosecutors in 2018, when he was known crimes.Can cause for them whether the jury leaders simply leave behind with someone who is cleaner than Cohen.Cleaning hits will be - and how big root they should cleanOP.