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Hell has no fury like the one Michael Cohen despised.
After Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the new president told Cohen to “pound sand” when he begged his then-boss to accompany him to the pinnacle of power in Washington. Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, had delusions of grandeur that he would be the next attorney general or White House chief of staff. (Please hold back your loud laughter.)
But by then, Trump had realized that his clumsy self-styled “fixer” couldn’t fix a broken shoelace. He was the Barney Fife of lawyers. He is self-centered, self-centered, arrogant, and a sycophant. Trump dropped Cohen off like a failed prom date.
Upon being refused, an enraged Cohen blew a head gasket. he felt humiliated. His anger boiled over, and he exploded with fierce anger and a thirst for revenge against the man he so admired and respected. He stirred up anger with a torrent of lies.
Michael Cohen returns as final witness in New York Ag Bragg’s Trump criminal prosecution
Those lies were exposed Thursday at the former president’s trial in Manhattan, and Mr. Cohen’s credibility was shattered. District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s star witness was subjected to a grueling cross-examination that rivaled that of a wood chipper. Mr. Cohen was shattered when he took the witness stand.
Under persistent questioning, lie after lie was uncovered. The defense peeled Cohen like an onion. He lied to everyone: Congress, the banks, the special counsel, the media, the IRS, the FEC, government lawyers, and court judges. The sheer volume of his breathtaking lies can best be measured in tonnage.
For Cohen, the oath to tell the truth is little more than a small statement. Because he cannot be constitutionally honest. Lying is compulsive and habitual. Mental disorder. The shrinks will have a field day. Often he did so to benefit himself or hurt Trump, but he also sometimes said outrageous things for no apparent reason.
A fair and competent judge dedicated to upholding justice would never allow such a judicial train wreck to desecrate the integrity of our legal system.
Naturally, Cohen tried to expose his fabrication in court. Although he justified some opinions, he was forced to concede others, and even some that he promoted in court. You’d need a calculator to record all of his fictions and fantasies that were unwound like a ball of yarn in front of a jury. No wonder a federal judge recently denounced him as a “serial perjurer.”
The prosecution’s star witness against Trump, Michael Cohen, is a chronic habitual liar
Jurors should not believe anything Mr. Cohen said about Mr. Trump. It was all made up to falsely incriminate an innocent person. But New York state has standard jury instructions that say Cohen’s goose can and should be cooked during jury deliberations. here it is:
“If a witness is found to have intentionally given false testimony regarding a material fact, the witness’s testimony may be disregarded in its entirety.”
The instructions ask jurors an important question: “Did the witness exhibit bias, hostility, or other behavior that affected the truth of the witness’s testimony?”
Cohen’s answer is “yes!”
To that end, the defense scrutinized his two main motives: revenge and greed. Mr. Cohen has condemned Mr. Trump’s conviction and prison sentence. But in the process, he realized that lying can be very profitable. His insane rants against Trump on social media are raising big bucks. His livelihood depends on it. He will continue to lie until the dollar dries up and he slips away.
NY VS. Trump: Michael Cohen’s lies, lies, and more lies could sink Da Bragg’s case
For Bragg and his partisan team, it was reckless to prosecute the notorious forger. But even if the jury believed some of Mr. Cohen’s testimony, there would still be no reliable evidence that business records were falsified, as the indictment alleges. Stormy Daniels’ reimbursement for her own payments to Cohen was recorded as a “legal expense” precisely because it was a negotiated non-disclosure agreement (NDA).
More importantly, there is no plausible evidence that President Trump would do so. Already knew How were Mr. Cohen’s fees recorded? Why do we do that?
Trump was not an accountant or auditor. He was the CEO of a multi-billion dollar international company. He did not specify computer input into the private ledger. It was a management function in a private company and not an executive responsibility of the company chairman.
So where is the crime? Nowhere. Prosecutors have woefully failed to meet the standard of evidence required by law.
The indictment against Trump specifies that the aforementioned payments were made in 2017. How is it virtually possible to falsify records in 2017 with the felony intent to “unlawfully” influence an election? rear Were elections held in 2016? It doesn’t make sense, but this is consistent with the entire Bragg incident.
NY VS. Trump: Michael Cohen’s lies, lies, and more lies could sink Da Bragg’s case
What exactly was illegal? Campaigns are designed to influence elections. That is their core purpose. it doesn’t matter. Mr. Bragg criminalized non-criminal acts by enacting inapplicable (and expired) laws to persecute Mr. Trump under the guise of prosecution.
But prosecutors don’t seem to care that he’s messing with the law at all. Mr. Trump used personal money, not campaign funds, to pay Mr. Cohen. This is completely legal. Because this payment was not considered an illegal contribution, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) chose not to impose a civil penalty. Similarly, the Justice Department found no evidence of a crime.
Neither the lack of facts nor the legal support deterred Mr. Bragg. He usurped authority to enforce federal election laws over which he had no jurisdiction as a district attorney. He usurped power to fulfill a campaign promise to put Trump in jail and damage his political opponents while benefiting the president’s opponent, Joe Biden.
A fair and competent judge dedicated to upholding justice would never allow such a judicial train wreck to desecrate the integrity of our legal system. But Judge Juan Melchan is the engineer driving the out-of-control locomotive. He took off his black robe, stepped out of the courtroom and took his place at the prosecutor’s table.
The judge messed up the rules of evidence that strictly prohibit irrelevant and damaging testimony. It is fundamentally unfair to smear a defendant with sordid stories that have little or nothing to do with the crime charged. The core of the prosecution’s case is a shameless character assassination.
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Mr Marchand should have stopped this legal farce a long time ago. His erroneous judgment is littered with reversible errors. But neither he nor his co-prosecutor Bragg care. Their goal is to convict Trump of interfering in the upcoming presidential election.
When Michael Cohen’s testimony ends and he finally stumbles from the witness stand in shock after being punched by the defense, prosecutors will call off the case. The question arises: what will happen next?
Trump’s lawyers may want to call Robert Costello to the stand. In testimony before Congress on Wednesday and a lengthy interview on Fox News, Cohen’s former lawyer described in vivid detail how his client had been lying about Trump all along. Cohen’s idea was to sign an NDA and succumb to Daniels’ blackmail scheme. He handled everything. Trump had nothing to do with it. Mr. Cohen said he understood that the then-candidate wanted to protect his family, not his campaign, as prosecutors claim.
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Costello also revealed a horrifying episode in which Bragg’s prosecutors concocted a false hearsay excuse that had no place in such proceedings and withheld exculpatory evidence from the grand jury. This is called obstruction of official duties. It reveals a corrupt district attorney willing to tear apart the law while supporting perjury to obtain wrongful convictions.
Perhaps it’s not Donald Trump who should be on trial, but Alvin Bragg and his associates.
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