DA Bragg Under Fire for Using Lying Cohen as Star Witness

Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is in the hot seat for putting Michael Cohen as the star witness in the hush money case.

Cohen spent four days on the stand, doing more help to Trump’s team than for Bragg.

And we all saw yesterday that Bragg’s plan of making Cohen a star witness didn’t turn out too well, did it?

Once Cohen took the stand and admitting to lying and stealing, well, that ended that dream for Bragg.

What will he do now?

Newsweek reports:

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has come under fire for calling Michael Cohen as the star witness in Donald Trump’s hush money case.

Cohen, a former Trump attorney and fixer who is now a vocal critic of the former president, testified for four days during the trial .

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Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Trump staffer Paul Ingrassia said Cohen’s testimony should have led to the case being “dismissed.” “President Trump and his legal team should feel triumphant,” he writes. “No sane jury would ever in a million years rule in Bragg’s favor.”

The trial, which is drawing to a close, will determine whether Trump falsified business records over payments facilitated by Cohen to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair secret before the 2016 election, as alleged in a criminal indictment by Bragg’s office.

Trump has denied wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges. He also denies an affair with Daniels, and claims the trial is part of a political witch hunt against him.

Cohen, who was jailed in 2018 for illegal campaign contributions, tax fraud and other charges in connection with the payment said in evidence that Trump instructed him to pay $130,000 in hush money to Daniels to prevent her from saying that she had sex with Trump in Nevada in 2006. Cohen said he took out a home loan to pay the money to Daniels and was then reimbursed by Trump. Prosecutors say this was done to avoid scandal during Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign.

On Monday, on his third day of cross-examination, Cohen also admitted that he had lied to reporters about Trump’s alleged affair with Daniels, and also admitted that he stole from Trump’s parent company, the Trump Organization. This led to commentators criticizing him, and Bragg in turn for allowing him to testify.

Po-Trump commentator Rogan O’Handley said Cohen’s admission to stealing was “a more severe crime than the BS they charged Trump with.”

“Alvin Bragg will go down in history as a Marxist slob,” he said.