Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces a Reckoning of Biblical Proportions on Cross Examination

https://jonathanturley.org/202...n-cross-examination/

Below is my column in the New York Post on the first day of the examination of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After lying to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will be bad. Years ago, Cohen threatened a journalist and told him “what I’m going to do to you is going to be f—ing disgusting.” Well, that bad. On cross examination, Cohen faces a reckoning of biblical proportions.


Michael Cohen apparently wants a reality show but, if his testimony Monday is any indication, reality is about to sink in for not just Cohen but the prosecutors and the court.

In stoking interest in his own appearance, the former Trump counsel promised the public that they should be “prepared to be surprised.”

Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing new and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Just before he took the stand, the New York Post revealed that Cohen has been peddling a reality show called “The Fixer,” including working with Colin Whelan, who helped create “Joe Exotic: Tigers, Lies and Cover-Up.” Whelan appears interested to stay within that genre.

The Cohen pitch came with a cheesy promo video where he promised viewers, “I am your fixer.”

His first post-Trump client, Bragg, may have to disagree.

Cohen had only one advantage for Bragg: His notoriously flexible morals and ethics, which allows him to say most anything to support his sponsors.

With the prosecution’s case almost over, Bragg needed Cohen to clearly state that Trump intentionally committed fraud to conceal some still poorly defined crime.

The problem is that Cohen only confirmed that Trump knew he was going to pay for the nondisclosure agreement and that it would be buried before the election. None of that is unlawful.

On his reality show promo, Cohen tells viewers that he is now there to fix their problems because “the little guy doesn’t usually have access to people with my particular set of skills.”

Those skills seem to have escaped all of the witnesses who were compelled to work with him.

Witnesses detailed how Cohen was ridiculed as someone “prone to exaggeration” and unprofessional.

Former Trump associate Hope Hicks said that Cohen was constantly trying to insinuate himself into the campaign and that he “used to like to call himself Mister Fix It, but it was only because he first broke it.”

Cohen only succeeded in confirming that he put together this payment and advised Trump to go forward with it.

He assured him that it would effectively kill the story before the election.

None of that is illegal. The “Fix it man” assured Trump that he fixed it and now wants Trump to go to jail for following that advice.

In the course of that representation, Cohen also admitted to taping his client without his knowledge, a breathtaking breach of trust and confidentiality.

This is the man who, according to Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Keith Davidson, expected to be Trump’s Attorney General.

Davidson said that Cohen was “depressed and despondent” and “I thought he was going to kill himself” when he realized that he would not be made a cabinet member.

Cohen contradicted Davidson and insisted that he only wanted to be Trump’s personal lawyer.

He also admitted that he was unaware that the publisher of National Enquirer, David Pecker, had long killed negative stories about Trump and other celebrities for decades.

Cohen has yet to fix the problem for Bragg.

More importantly, he has added to the problem for Judge Juan Merchan. Many of us have ridiculed this case as devoid of any criminal act.

Indeed, Merchan has allowed the prosecutors to proceed without clearly stating what crime was being concealed.

It is not even clear why paying one’s lawyer a lump sum for his services and costs (including the NDA payment) was not a “legal expense” or how it was supposed to be entered on a business ledger.

Absent a sudden epiphany in his final testimony on Tuesday, Merchan should rule in favor of a directed verdict — that is, throwing the case out before it goes to a jury. If he instead sends this farcical case to the jury, it is Merchan, not Cohen, who may have a better claim to a reality show as the ultimate “Fixer.”

Yeah, at this point, I have to honestly wonder just how stupid is Cohen. Really, I wonder.

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Originally posted by BigSwede:
Winsome Earle-Sears is the one

I think I'd like to keep her here in VA as our next governor.

She ain't eligible to be VPOTUS.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
She ain't eligible to be VPOTUS.

That's too bad.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
She ain't eligible to be VPOTUS.

Why not?

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
She ain't eligible to be VPOTUS.

Why not?

She was born in Jamaica.

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Originally posted by WaterburyBob:

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:
She ain't eligible to be VPOTUS.

Why not?

She was born in Jamaica.

Born outside the US? That didn’t stop Obama.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:

Born outside the US? That didn’t stop Obama.

Perhaps you're being sarcastic, but he was born in Hawaii...allegedly.

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allegedly.

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She was born in Jamaica

Crap! And I knew that but forgot

Joey D
5/13/24

start at 2:33 to avoid all the commercials.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024...l-cohen-trump-trial/

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), client of Justice Juan Merchan’s daughter’s consulting firm, said Tuesday he prepared Michael Cohen for his testimony in the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump.

Goldman’s preparation of Cohen appears to raise a conflict of interest.

Goldman paid more than $157,000 dollars to the political consulting firm of Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, Federal Election Commission disbursement filings obtained by Breitbart News show

“How on earth can you have someone who pays off the judge’s family deliberately coaching witnesses in the trial, and call it a fair trial?” CEO of the Federalist Sean Davis questioned on X. “You can’t. This entire thing is a farce.”
Goldman met with Cohen “a number of times to prepare him” for testifying, he said in passing while appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:

"I have deposed Michael Cohen, and I have met with him a number of times to prepare him. This [Trump trial] was different testimony than what his demeanor was during the AG’s case. This is different than he has been in the past. But the question is not how he is on direct examination. The question is how he is on cross examination."

Goldman, running in New York, is part of a new cohort of left-wing prosecutors who have brought their “woke” left-wing ideas into law enforcement, where their mission is to liberate criminals through “reform,” while persecuting conservatives.

He was once an obscure former Southern District of New York prosecutor who appeared occasionally on MSNBC, where he helped spread the “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory. Notably, he was taken in by Christopher Steele’s so-called “pee tape.”

He then found his way to the House Intelligence Committee, where he was employed as Schiff’s committee counsel. In that role, he led the impeachment investigation — such as it was — into President Donald Trump’s supposedly scandalous phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

Goldman was also among the top stock traders in 2023. He reportedly beat the market by 52.8 percent.

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Re: “Goldman was also among the top stock traders in 2023. He reportedly beat the market by 52.8 percent.”

Maybe aided by inside information.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by sdy:
https://www.breitbart.com/2024...l-cohen-trump-trial/

Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY), client of Justice Juan Merchan’s daughter’s consulting firm, said Tuesday he prepared Michael Cohen for his testimony in the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump.

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If President Trump is convicted in this sham court, he will have multiple avenues of appeal. Unfortunately it will take years to be vindicated.

Worth a listen

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She was born in Jamaica

Aha! Like Big Swede, I had forgotten that.

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If President Trump is convicted in this sham court, he will have multiple avenues of appeal. Unfortunately it will take years to be vindicated.

Yes, a conviction would never stand up on appeal, but of course that's not the ultimate goal. It's simply to have a conviction before the election, which they may well get in this case. Though I believe it'll end up being a hung jury.

Democrats are truly vile.

Incredible testimony before a House committee on “Lawfare” tactics from the Biden administration

Wooooooo another committee hearing! Just more waste of time and money.