Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and self-described “fixer,” Micheal Cohen, is slated to serve as a key witness in the scandal-plagued former president’s impending Manhattan criminal hush money trial — expected to be the first of Trump’s four criminal cases to go to trial.
Of course, it makes perfect sense for Cohen to serve as a key player in this case, considering he was a key player in the original hush-money scheme, serving as the middleman between Trump and Stormy Daniels by cutting the check to the adult film star and Trump affair partner with the understanding that Donald would reimburse him, not only for the payment made to Daniels but also a little extra to buy his own silence — an ordeal that Cohen himself ended up serving jail time for.
As that trial and the possibility of Cohen’s testimony grow closer, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the former president and his legal team are terrified of what Donald’s former “fixer” is going to say on the stand.
So much so, in fact, that Trump’s defense has begun to threaten Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with “serious” consequences, should Micheal Cohen be unmuzzled.
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According to a disturbing new report from Newsweek, Trump attorney Todd Blanche sent a pointed warning to DA Bragg that he would face “serious legal and ethical consequences” if Michael Cohen takes the stand in the Manhattan hush money trial.
In a letter to the DA’s office, Blanche took aim at Cohen’s credibility as a witness, accusing the former personal Trump attorney of perjury, claiming that Cohen lied on the stand in Judge Arthur Engoron’s courtroom during New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil fraud trial against Trump and the Trump Organization.
Blanche’s letter to Bragg reads:
[The District Attorney’s office’s] conscious choice to ignore obvious and admitted criminal conduct by Cohen and to instead deploy unethical, strong-armed tactics against an innocent man in his late 70s underscores the irresponsibility of your conduct in office. This dereliction of duty renders you fully unfit to serve as District Attorney, and exposes innocent citizens, like Mr. Weisselberg, to irreparable and life-altering harm.”
Former longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg is of particular interest to everyone involved in this case right now after he took a plea deal this week for perjuring himself in a 2020 deposition and once again in Engoron’s courtroom in late 2023, in connection to false statements he made under oath in an effort to distance himself from former president Trump and his crimes.
Trump, Blanche, and the entire Trump legal team know good and well that Micheal Cohen’s testimony will be damning to the former president’s defense. The only card they have left in their deck is attacking Cohen’s credibility as a witness. However, since Cohen was already determined to be a credible witness by Judge Engoron in the civil fraud case, the Trump legal team is highly unlikely to find much success in this tactic.
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