“Stormy Daniels” affair
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Under the fire of the heated cross-examination of Donald Trump’s lawyers, the key but controversial witness of the New York prosecutors did not waver and tried a little more to push his ex-boss down.
Severe break in tone halfway through the seventeenth day of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial, in New York. Michael Cohen, the former hitman and confidant of the ex-president and new candidate, was still on Tuesday May 15 at the bar of the Manhattan court, where he had appeared the day before as a key witness and protagonist of the so-called affair “Stormy Daniels.” But, after a day and a half of unfolding on velvet the most damning confessions for his ex-“boss” and playing the part of a post-Trumpian repentance, the same Cohen suddenly moved from the calibrated and methodical questions of the prosecutors to the muscular care of a cross-examination of the defense designed to torpedo his credibility.
And so he immediately found himself caught in the heat of this inaugural exchange with Trump’s main lawyer, Todd Blanche: “Hello Mr. Cohen, we have never met but you know who I am, right?
– Yes.
– On April 23, you went on TikTok and called me a “crying little shit”, right?
“That sounds like something I could have said.”
Delirium of love
Instant objection from the prosecutors, upheld by the judge, immediately followed by a call to order by the latter, who does not fully understand why the lawyer would want to