Michael Cohen’s Credibility is Torn Apart as the Sham Case Against Trump Appears to be on the Brink of Disintegration
There is still no substitute for the human element. Even with modern technology, DNA, and AI, trials often turn on the testimony of key witnesses.
The main reason why OJ Simpson was acquitted in 1995 was because the State’s key witness, LAPD Detective Mark Fuhrman, proved to not be credible after the defense showed he lied about using derogatory language about blacks. The case against Trump is likely on the verge of falling apart for because of witness credibility issues as well.
The State’s key and only major witness against Trump in the current sham hush money trial was proven liar, sleazy and disbarred attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen had significant credibility problems before he took the stand. The disgraced attorney had to serve jail time for a number of criminal offenses, including lying to obtain a home equity loan. Cohen also pleaded guilty in a separate case to lying to Congress about work he did on a Trump tower project in Russia. The former employee of Trump was also going on TV networks to discuss both his upcoming testimony and the case against the former President just months before the now ongoing case went to trial, in addition to doing live Tiktok videos about his role in the case for money.
The proven liar took the stand earlier this week with major credibility problems, and the recent revelation that he was also stealing from Trump should completely destroy what little faith the jury might have had in Cohen. The prosecution’s star witness admitted to stealing $30,000 from the former president when he worked for him. The former lawyer has had several book deals and he’s made money on social media and doing interviews on networks such as MSNBC. While America is a free country, Cohen can do what he wants, these actions show the disgraced lawyer is in this for money, he has no respect for the judicial process or the truth. The fact that testimony in this case has further showed that Cohen lied about not wanting to get a job in DC with Trump and his bias against the former President is important as well.
The prosecution’s case was weak to begin with in this sham trial for multiple reasons, and the devastating cross-examination of the proven liar, Cohen, will likely lead to a mistral, acquittal, or at least a hung jury. While New York City is a nearly 70 percent Democrat enclave, the case here is so weak that even a group of what are mostly likely Democrat and left-leaning individuals should still not be able to convict Trump. The prosecution obviously can’t call Trump to the stand, and the man who allegedly approved the payout to Cohen, the former President’s previous accountant, Allen Weisselberg, is not testifying in this case either. Weisselberg has also maintained that he doesn’t think Trump did anything wrong publicly.
Michael Cohen has zero credibility, and the disgraced lawyer also had no first-hand knowledge of any alleged role Trump may have played in the payout to him or Stormy Daniels anyway. Cohen himself had admitted that he was not in the room when the plan was formulated on how to reimburse him for the $130,000 he paid to Daniels, and the prosecution has only been able to argue that his testimony arguably establishes the chain of events leading to Cohen’s reimbursement that Trump was allegedly involved with. The fact the prosecution did not even call Weisselberg to the stand will likely be another problem the prosecution’s already weak case will face when the jury begins to deliberate, provided the case isn’t dismissed by the judge before the trial reaches that stage.
