Fox News legal analyst Greg Jarrett said Tuesday that Michael Cohen “failed to deliver a devastating blow” to former President Donald Trump during prosecutor testimony.
Cohen is former President Donald Trump’s former fixer who pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to Congress. accused Further sentencing for perjury by federal judge testimony Tuesday after taking the stand Monday in a case centered on a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. Jarrett said Cohen’s testimony Tuesday provided no new information about the incident or Trump’s wrongdoing. (Related article: Jonathan Turley says Michael Cohen’s testimony helped Trump because it showed he was following “instructions”)
“The whole morning was the second day of Michael Cohen, a notorious liar and, according to a recent judge, a serial perjurer,” Jarrett told Fox Business host and former Trump administration official Larry Kudlow. “I am a person,” he said. “He said nothing to President Trump. Even though this anemic case legally rested on a notorious liar, when he took the witness stand he was devastated by the defendant, his former boss. I’m really surprised it didn’t hit me hard.”
“So this case is really about the core charge of a misdemeanor that was magically upgraded to a felony,” Jarrett continued. “Well, if you eliminate the misdemeanor of false business records, you never get to the felonies, but Cohen didn’t do that. He said, ‘Oh, yeah, this was a false record.’ However, when he later went on to explain the purpose of the payments he received, it turned out they were for legal services. So I think the moment the prosecution’s case is over and Cohen steps off the stand, the defense has more of an opportunity to vigorously argue for a direct verdict. ”
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Mr. Kudlow asked Mr. Jarrett about comments George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley made about Mr. Cohen during an appearance on Monday’s show, but Mr. Turley said the tapes were made by Mr. Cohen, who was Mr. Trump’s lawyer at the time. He said this appeared to show that he was following his legal advice.
“Yeah, that’s totally true, but the elected district attorney Alvin Bragg, who promised to put Trump in jail, that was the theme of his campaign. He followed the legal advice of his lawyers. I want to put Trump in jail,” Jarrett said. “I mean, it’s totally unfunny, it’s ridiculous, it’s ridiculous, and yet this judge, in a way, is kind of missing it. This is a train wreck, and the judge is driving the locomotive. It’s as if he took off his robe and got off the bench and sat in the prosecutor’s seat. That’s outrageous.”
On Friday, New York Judge Juan Marchan appeared to suggest that prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office call former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg as a witness, saying that Turley had “crossed the line”. “I was criticized.” A political fundraising firm run by Marchan’s daughter Lauren collaborated with the Brennan Center for Justice, which was involved in efforts to remove former President Trump from the post-millennial Colorado ballot. report. (Related: Andy McCarthy says he doesn’t believe Trump judge will dismiss case because daughter is a ‘progressive operative’)
“There was no crime. I’ve always said that,” Jarrett told Kudrow. “I wrote a column a long time ago in which I said that this was always a trial to explore hypothetical crimes that cannot be found anywhere in the criminal law. This kind of complex theory of Mr. Bragg’s It’s a funding violation. No, it’s not a donation or a contribution. The FEC said this, the Justice Department said that, Bragg’s predecessor said that. He said he didn’t care, he wanted to mess with the law, distort the evidence, and twist the facts to bring Trump down. This is blatant election interference. is.”
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