Posted on 05/17/2024 8:53:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
CNN’s Anderson Cooper said Thursday has admitted that he would doubt the credibility of Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, after he provided testimony during the president’s criminal trial in New York.
Discussing the trial with CNN legal analyst Elie Honig, Cooper agreed with the prevailing view that Cohen had crumbled under cross-examination from Trump’s defense lawyer, Todd Blanche.
The transcript went as follows:
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COOPER: Throughout the day, Michael Cohen, when cornered, he found himself in a corner he does have a pattern of suddenly not understanding the question being asked are seemingly kind of, I mean, one could say buying time to try to figure out what, how he wants to answer. But he definitely suddenly starts to have Todd Blanche repeat questions saying, ‘I don’t quite understand what you mean, I’m confused by the question.’ But this time, Michael Cohen was cornered in what appeared here to be a lie, I think to many in the room.
You could tell the import of the moment and everyone in the courtroom could tell and if you were unaware of it, the clicking of every of every reporters’ in the room typewriters, it was like a crescendo because the drama of the moment was so clear to everybody.
HONIG: Let me ask you if if I can put you in the jury box, having just witnessed that piece of cross-examination, do you have doubts that that conversation happened the way Michael Cohen testified?
COOPER: Absolutely. Absolutely. I think it’s devastating for Michael Cohen’s credibility on this, I mean on this one particular topic. It’s hard too, I don’t know. Yes. I think if I was a juror in this case watching that, I would think, this guy’s making this up as he’s going along or he’s making this particular story up.
In a separate clip, Honig concurred that Cohen, himself a convicted perjurer, had had his “knees chopped out” by Trump’s attorney.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a star cooperating witness get his knees chopped out quite as clearly and dramatically as what just happened with Michael Cohen,” he explained. “I’ve certainly seen very effective cross-examinations of cooperating witnesses. I’ve seen aspects of their story cut into and called into question.”
If even far-left CNN are doubting credibility of their star witness, this does not bode well for the prosecution led by the Manhattan’s leftist District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The case continues.
Way to go andy....that’s some real crack reporting right there...like the rest of us didn’t know that all along. The left medias surprise at this just goes to show how completely out of touch with reality they are.
This guy doesn’t know his ass from his elbow
Sure he does..............😉
They live in a liberal bubble and never speak to anyone outside of it.................
He’s familiar with his boyfriends’ however
And if you saw it, that recent interview bill mahr did with Katie Couric is a perfect example.
What credibility?
The cynic in me still says the very best Trump can hope for is a hung jury. There is just too much far-left bias everywhere in the courtroom.
There is one sly Asian on the jury who I think will hold out.
I am guessing Anderson knows ass....
OK, but let one of the hung jurors let loose on the whole clown show, especially Merchan, for wasting a huge amount of their time. No doubt Merchan will keep them in deliberations over July 4 weekend to try to break them.
Maybe someone should tell him why bragg hired all those jurors, and it didn’t have anything to with listening to or reviewing testimony/evidence.
His dates aren’t interested in his elbow
Cohen’s testimony is irrelevant as is the spectacle of having a trial. A New York jury is a slam dunk conviction on Trump, the trial is merely a formality to give an appearance of a legitimate judicial process. Bragg and the judge had the outcome wired before the first charge or “piece of evidence” was presented.
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