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Michael Cohen Was Paid to Fix Trump’s Problems. Now He’s One of Them. (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He’s also a bit of a problem for the prosecution, because he’s very much painting himself as a filthy liar with a vendetta against Trump, and this makes him anything but a credible witness.

He’s already fudged a couple of please, which means he either puttered himself during testimony or is lying during a conditional release hearing. A judge has already denied relief on these grounds, and it will make the prosecution’s job in the NY case difficult because, well, he’s a scumbag— which is why Trump hired him. But it also makes him a very troublesome witness to call.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Having scumbags rat out larger scumbags is something these people do all the time with mob and gang cases. And prosecutors have a high success rate with those cases in this court.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Right, but the problem is that if Cohen is such a shitty scumbag, some jurors might doubt his testimony, even if he just so happens to be telling the truth, just this once.

And he’s a really shitty scumbag.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

No paywall