It just keeps getting better (my perspective) when it comes to Michael Cohen.

Now Fox News reports that not only has the case against Donald Trump imploded, but things may now Boomerang and turn on Cohen.

From Fox News:

Full transript:

The defenses cross-examination of Michael Cohen is back underway let’s bring in trial attorney Mercedes Cen uh Todd blanch is exploring some

interesting ground right now and that is secret recordings that Michael Cohen had on his phone according to our Carrie kupek Cohen has testified that he had

about a hundred secret recordings on his phone about 40 of them were with journalists one of them was with the former president of the United States we

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don’t know what the other ones were but I’m not quite sure what he’s getting at here I mean legally speaking if you’re in New York which is a one party

consent state but you’re recording somebody who’s in California which is a two-party State the stricter law is the superseding law so potentially there’s a

an infringement on the law there but what do you think the bigger picture is here great to be on with you John and Sandra as always it really is about

giving the jury the perspective that Michael Cohen is untrustworthy it’s cringeworthy for jurors even though you’re absolutely right if it’s a one-

party state there’s no laws that have been broken but it’s cringeworthy for jurors to sit there who are trying to determine his credibility that he has so

many recordings in which when it’s a one party State you know you don’t have to disclose it to the participant in the call that you’re actually recording them

so it is personally when this comes up in cases that I’ve handled it is something that especially if it’s at the opposing side you can certainly put your

arms around it and almost jump up and down and Glee because this is something that can be used against the opposing side Mercedes let me get your reaction

to this Cohen um would communicate he said in this courtroom just now with reporters via text signal and other encrypted apps Cohen decided what

communication to use depending on the topic that he was discussing with the particular reporter saying if it was a private or unusual conversation I’d go

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to one of the encrypted apps to John’s point and uh what Carrie was highlighting a moment ago there were a total of 95 total recordings on his

phone he’d record Trump and reporters Cohen says he understands that it’s not ethical for a lawyer to record their client but he noted that there is a

quote crime fraud exemption rule blanch then said but didn’t you just record Trump to show to pecker not the crime fraud exemption rule Cohen answers

saying yes but you asked me if there are any exceptions your response to that Mercedes well those that’s a great Q&A think about the two lawyers that are on

that jury they know how inappropriate generally speaking it is to record your clients without them knowing that they’re being recorded that is something

that because we’re fiduciaries we have this this hir duty to our clients you don’t generally typically record your client if you believe that your client’s

about to commit a crime then of course you can set aside the attorney client privilege then you have to notify the authorities there’s a whole body of law

that talks about that but the good thing about that Q&A between Todd blanch and Michael Cohen is that there seems to be an inconsistency and wherever you have

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an inconsistency with a witness that you are attacking their credibility it has to be highlighted before the jury and that’s exactly what Todd blanch did all

right so uh so blanch is trying to paint a picture of a guy here who literally cannot be trusted and then there’s this idea too of has he lied on the stand and

there’s a lot of people who believe that Cohen wasn’t truthful when he said that he made the recording of trump to show David pecker uh because why would he

need to show that to David pecker some people think it was for his own purposes and then there’s this idea the phone call with the chief of security Keith

Schiller which Cohen said was about story Daniels but blanch is now saying or eliciting from Cohen that it was about a 14-year-old Prank Caller does

this go to the potential instruction from the judge uh that if the jury believes that Cohen has lied about anything on the stand they can discount the entirety of his

testimony there is a perfect jury instruction that I use in every single trial falses Anum falses and Plum basically false in one false in

everything if the jury and this will be an instruction we’ll have to see if if the judge allows this instruction but generally speaking it is allowed if the

jury believes that Michael Cohen has lied under oath in this during this trial they can discount his entire testimony now that’s obviously that is

very Broad and sweeping we’ll have to see what the what the jur what the judge decides about that jury instruction in particular but you see that jury

instruction just about all trials lot more to come this afternoon Mercedes thanks so much we’ll be right back hey everyone I’m Emily compono catch me and

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And from yesterday in case you missed this:

Alvin Bragg’s Case Continues To Fall Apart As Michael Cohen Implodes On Cross-Exam

There’s an old saying that says you should quit while you’re ahead.

I was going to say Alvin Bragg would have been wise to follow that, but then I realized he was never really “ahead” in the first place.

This “got Trump” case started off ill-conceived and it has only gone downhill since it started.

But the juiciest parts have been disgraced former Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s implosion on the witness stand.

When your testimony doesn’t go well on direct exam (by the attorney that called you and should be friendly to you), then you can really expect a big crash and burn on cross exam.

Former Federal Prosecutor Katie Cherkasky used the word “annihilation” on Fox News:

Former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky told Fox News this morning that there will likely be an "annihilation" of Michael Cohen on cross examination when he takes the stand in the Alvin Bragg vs Trump case. . pic.twitter.com/RQSIJYhwXA

— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) May 6, 2024

Even CNN’s panel is now saying Alvin Bragg’s case has entered the “territory of doom”:

A panel of attorneys told CNN anchor Jake Tapper on Tuesday that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's (D) case against Donald Trump is entering the territory of doom.

Earlier in the day, Trump's defense team cross-examined Michael Cohen, one of… https://t.co/KPb0psk4Vc pic.twitter.com/7U4xcwNpvU

— JPNWMN (@JPNWMN) May 15, 2024

Sure enough, the cross exam did not dissappoint!

We’ve only just begun, and my friends over at TrendingPolitics provided this partial transcript which is delicious to read:

“You continued to call President Trump various names on your podcasts and when you’re even doing CNN interviews, correct?” Blanche asks. “Correct,” Cohen says. After President Trump criticized Cohen in a Truth Social post in March of 2023, Cohen shot back with another insult.

“You called him dumba** Donald?” Blanche asked. “Sounds correct,” Cohen confirms.

Nor could Cohen contain himself from commenting about the trial on TikTok where he has been criticized for allegedly monetizing his comments. Blanche highlighted one statement where Cohen admitted he had “mental excitement about the fact that this trial was starting” and noted a paralegal was monitoring his social media.

“That didn’t stop you, did it?” he asked.

Cohen said, “No, sir.”

Later, the defense shifted back to Cohen’s well-known lies under oath, asking if those oaths differed in any way from the one he took on the witness stand today.

“Was that oath that you took every single time, so going back to all the depositions, the same oath that you took Monday morning in this courtroom?” Blanche asks.

“Yes sir,” Cohen says.

“The oath doesn’t change, depending on the location, does it?” Blanche asks.

“No,” Cohen says.

“And each time you met with a federal agent you were told that if you made a false statement that that was a felony, a federal crime, correct” Blanche asks.

“Yes sir,” Cohen says.

Lies to the U.S. House Intelligence Committee were referenced which ultimately led to Cohen’s perjury charges in 2018.

“There were a couple of different lies?” Blanche asks. “That’s correct,” Cohen says. When asked about which lies he told during that previous testimony, Cohen admitted he couldn’t remember them all.

“What was the other lie?” Blanche asks. “I don’t recall. I think those were the two,” Cohen says, referencing a claim that he stopped the Trump Tower Moscow project talks in January 2016.

“You lied under oath, correct?” Blanche asks.

“Yes sir,” Cohen says.

“And you lied again when you met with the special counsel on August 7, (2018), correct?” Blanche asks.

“Correct,” Cohen says.

“You said you were accepting responsibility for those lies, for lying to Congress. But in fact, you repeatedly said — and even said this morning, and even this week — that the reason why you lied was because of your loyalty to President Trump,” Blanche says.

“I worked with a joint defense agreement and we crafted the two-page document in order to stay on message — the message we all knew Mr. Trump wanted, including Mr. Trump’s attorney at the time,” Cohen responds.

“So are you saying you’re accepting responsibility, or blaming the joint defense agreement?” Blanche followed up.

“Accepting responsibility, I read it and I submitted it to the committee,” Cohen said on the stand.

Watch for yourself here:

Here’s how the AP covered it:

With prosecutors’ hush money case against Donald Trump barreling toward its end, their star witness was back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers sought to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president.

Trump’s attorneys resumed the potentially explosive cross-examination of Cohen, trying to paint him as bent on destroying his former boss’s reputation and to undermine his credibility, which could determine the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s fate in the case.

Cohen is prosecutors’ final witness — at least for now — as they try to prove Trump schemed to suppress a damaging story he feared would torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign and then falsified business records to cover it up.

Trump did not look at Cohen as he entered the room, gazing straight ahead.

The trial got off to a slow start, with attorneys halting proceedings to have several sidebar conversations with the judge out of earshot of reporters. The stop-and-start continued as Trump lawyer Todd Blanche resumed his cross-examination by asking Cohen about text messages he exchanged with an investigator for the Manhattan district attorney’s office who collected his cellphones as part of the hush money probe.

It’s hard to imagine someone LESS credible than Cohen:

Michael Cohen did you ever meet Alvin Bragg

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Lawyer plays tape

Its Cohen on tape

Yes I've met with Alvin Bragg multiple times

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Perjury King wont let us down pic.twitter.com/n2fxm2Zkac

— 0HOUR (@0HOUR) May 16, 2024