| In Trump Trial Closing
Cohen Called Liar MVP As Justice
Merchan Vows Curative Instruction
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
May 28 – When Donald Trump's
lawyer Todd Blanche gave his
closing argument he declared
Michael Cohen the GLOAT: the
Greatest Liar of All
Time.
He
said the prosecution had
manipulated evidence, noting
that Cohen's texts to Trump's
bodyguard Keith Schiller about
the 14 year old crank caller
had not been in the list the
prosecutors showed the jury.
He questioned what Cohen
called his recording of Trump,
and how it ended,
Blanche
also told the jurors that a
guilty verdict could put Trump
in prison.
Immediately after the jurors
left for lunch, the prosecutor
demanded a curative
instruction.
After
Blanche noted that such an
instruction would already been
in Justice Juan Merchan's
legal instruction to be given
Wednesday morning, Justice
Merchan called what Blanche
did "outrageous," and promised
a curative instruction on
Tuesday afternoon, before the
prosecution closing, estimated
at four to four and a half
hours
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