In Trump Trial Prosecution
Endgame Michael Cohen Explains
Merch As Prepares for Cross
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
May 14 – In the Trump Trial,
Michael Cohen's second day on
direct examination was
stretched all the way to 1 pm,
the lunch break.
It veered into
his post-arrest dalliance with
Robert Costello, later to
testify to rebut him before
the New York grand jury.
It touched on two
more banks - Sterling National
bank where he was on an
advisory board (subject not
mentioned) and TD, where he
opened a safety deposit box.
Finally,
the mea culpas. About his
podcasts, his merch (only one
item in the catalogue, he
pointed out, has Trump's image
on it), his lost moral compass
and taxi
medallions.
Throughout the
morning, even as Mike Johnson
thundered about the gag order
out in Collect Pond Park,
Trump's lead lawyer Todd
Blanche, fixing for the cross,
made only a few wan
objections.
There were
limiting instructions, such as
that material about AMI came
in only to assess David
Pecker's credibility. Would
jurors when the time came even
remember him?
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