During closing arguments Tuesday, Todd Branche, one of former President Donald Trump’s lawyers, called disgraced former attorney Michael Cohen “the biggest liar of all time” and a “bragger.”
POLITICO Blanche revealed the label to a New York jury and denounced Cohen, the report said. commit He was accused of perjury and also called himself the “MVP of liars,” or most valuable player.
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Blanche Quote “The number of times Cohen lied is largely not in dispute,” she said, while listing the institutions and people she alleges Cohen lied to, from Congress to his own family. Politico Ben Farhad.
During her cross-examination of Cohen, Branche worked hard to brand him a liar, calling him “the literal embodiment of reasonable doubt” on Tuesday. The New York Times report.
During cross-examination on May 16, Blanche accused Cohen of lying in his testimony about the content of a phone call he made to Trump’s bodyguard, Keith Schiller, in 2016. Cohen reportedly claimed that during that brief call he spoke with Trump about the alleged payments to Stormy Daniels, but Blanche falsely claimed the call was actually about harassing calls Cohen was receiving from a prankster 14-year-old.
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Breitbart News, citing Matthew Russell Lee of Inner City Press and Caitlin Richardson of the Daily Caller, reported that Blanche pointed to text messages from Cohen to Schiller about harassing phone calls exchanged before and after the phone call in question.
According to Lee’s tweet, the call came between two text messages from Cohen to Schiller about the harassing calls. The first text message read: was and second at 7:48 p.m. was At 8:14 p.m., The Daily Caller’s Caitlin Richardson reported from the courtroom that Schiller “left a voicemail at 8:01 p.m.,” and continued, “sent me a text message” at 8:02 p.m. The disgraced former lawyer then called Schiller at 8:02 p.m.
“You lied about this. You said you didn’t remember the harassing phone calls, and now you claim that in a one-minute, 36-second call you spoke with your harasser about Stormy Daniels,” Blanche told Lee.
Once the prosecution finishes its closing arguments, the verdict process will begin, which could begin as early as Wednesday.
This incident New York vs. TrumpNo. 71543-23, Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County.
