Andrew H. Giuliani
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Soros funded DA’s office now arguing about getting a photo of then candidate Donald J. Trump and Keith Schiller from the evening of October 24, 2016 admitted.
Blanche pushes back that they never argued that President Trump and Schiller were together that evening, just that there was not enough time in the call to bring up what the witness first said. Also, that the witness changed his testimony.
Blanche adds that it’s the same here-say arguements that the tweets have, which the Trump defense team wanted to add that Merchan would not allow.
Let’s see if Merchan changes his tune on this one…it appears that he’d have to violate his original here-say conclusion to allow the prosecution to add this. Will he go with his precedence or will he bend to rule with the ADA?
Blanche saying that he has significant evidence that Cohen lied under oath about what Cohen talked about on that 96 second phone call.
Remember: Cohen never originally testified about the 14 year old prank caller was a topic of that call, but changed his testimony after seeing the leading and trailing text conversation with Schiller.
Merchan says he wants to discuss it after lunch and look into the here-say issue.
President Donald J. Trump, the leading candidate to become the 47th President of the United States and the 45th President of the United States, has exited the courtroom through the rear door.
Stay tuned for LIVE recap of the morning…
Andrew H. Giuliani
@AndrewHGiuliani
Merchan is seated. He is now discussing his decision with regard to whether or not he will allow a late submission from the prosecution, a photo of President Trump and Keith Schiller, minutes before the 8:02 call.
If Merchan rules with the prosecution on this, he would be violating his own earlier precedence regarding here-say. Let’s see…
WOW, Merchan has sustained the Trump defense teams’ objection, not allowing the photo to come in as a violation of the earlier here-say order.
Actually a fair ruling from this Judge…it just would have been too hypocritical and obvious for Merchan to flip on this one. I expect him to still call this helping the Soros funded DA’s office.
Now discussing whether or not they could get the CSPAN witness out tomorrow. Judge is saying we can adjourn until tomorrow to try to get the witness out here. Merchan went from trying to fast track this trial last Thursday to now slowing it down to get this potential CSPAN witness here.
We have adjourned per Merchan for a few minutes so the Soros funded DA’s office can try to reach out to this potential CSPAN late witness.
Note: No Alvin Bragg in the courtroom today. Ever since Cohen may have perjured himself, Bragg has been a no show. Is he busy locking up violent criminals? My guess: unfortunately not.
President Trump, Merchan and ADA’s are back.
Soros funded ADA says the CSPAN witness will fly in tomorrow morning.
Merchan is going to have this witness, says the witness will have to be here 9:30am.
This still doesn’t get by the here-say issue.
So Merchan goes from trying to expedite this trial as recently as last Thursday, telling both the ADA’s and the Trump team to be ready for summations by Tuesday (tomorrow).
Now, Merchan is adjourning early to allow this witness that doesn’t even get by this here-say issue.
My CAPSLOCK ON OPINION: MERCHAN IS CORRUPT!
Blanche and the ADA are talking now while Merchan is standing waiting to end the day.
They decide that they will not call the CSPAN witness and instead they will present the picture of Schiller and Donald Trump on October 24th, 2016 to Cohen and the jury and verify that it’s a fair representation of Schiller, with Cohen being asked the question.
The trial continues today…
More later.....