That’s the question Jonathan Turley asks — and answers — as he observes the trial of Donald Trump in Manhattan. After several hours of direct testimony spread over two days in Alvin Bragg’s peculiar falsified-records prosecution, Trump’s attorney finally got a chance to cross-examine Michael Cohen. That cross-examination will continue today, but questions are already being raised about whether the convicted perjurer might be up to his old tricks.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the questioning focused on Cohen’s “past inconsistencies,” without going into too much detail:
Donald Trump’s lawyer on Tuesday painted Michael Cohen, the star witness of the former president’s hush-money trial, as an opportunist who had moved from being obsessed with serving his boss to actively working to put him in jail. …
Trump’s lawyers have seized on Cohen’s frequent media appearances,…
