It feels like the defense blunted any good momentum they made with Cohen by calling a witness who had the looks of being a paid-for hit job. They might’ve been better not calling that guy at all.
I read something about that yesterday, but I thought it was a goof. He didn’t really say that? Did he?
Ahhhhh. Figures. Just Trump being Trump — lazy in not reading or just unwitting in not realizing what he is giving his stamp of approval. How anyone can support such a guy is beyond me. It really is.
From the article: In a statement to ABC News, the Trump campaign claimed it is not a campaign video but rather a random online video reposted by a staffer who did not see the word. Truth or plausible deniability? Hard to determine. With someone so practiced in lying and deception engaged in an enterprise (politics) so full of untruth it is hard to suss out what is true and what isn’t.
That witness is a disaster. The fact that he was called by the defense team suggests either some desperation on their part or Trump knew he was going to conduct himself in that fashion and he ordered his lawyers to call him just to see the judge get screwed with.
I think the defense had no idea what a disaster he would end up being. He’s a lawyer, and I suspect the defense didn’t take too much time prepping him for collateral issues, and the lawyer proved to be awful on the stand.
According to Alina Habba-Dabba-do, Trump really wanted to testify - he really did. Mean ‘ol lawyers just wouldn’t let him. I guess now he is only left with social media on which to testify.
He's a perjury machine. He would be a disaster on cross examination. That and he would go on long tangential rants about topics having nothing to do with this trial.
Interesting question, if the Court instructs the jury not to draw any adverse inference from Trump's failure to testify could it have the opposite effect considering his well known obsession with defending himself?