Posted on 10/27/2023 7:23:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
After the first day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be returning to court on Wednesday.
In 2019, allegations made by disgraced lawyer Cohen spurred the attorney general’s office to investigate President Trump.
At the center of the case are the Statements of Financial Condition (SFC) for the Trump Organization from 2011 to 2021.
On Tuesday, Cohen said that he personally altered together several of those statements with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg under the direction of his former boss.
Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and one-time executive vice president of the Trump Organization, will continue to testify against his former boss.
He is testifying in the ongoing get-Trump civil trial in the case New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against the 45th president.
James is seeking $250 million in damages to be paid to the state of New York.
The NY AG is also hoping for the barring of President Trump and his adult sons from holding executive business positions in New York.
Don Jr. and Eric Trump are co-defendants in the case.
On September 26, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron had already ruled in a pretrial summary judgment that President Trump is liable for fraud.
Trump’s defense attorney Alina Habba picked up a cross-examination of Cohen on Wednesday morning.
Cohen’s cross-examination continued with Trump’s legal team questioning him about the times he lied under oath.
Trump’s attorneys said the judge had asked Cohen 50 questions when he made his guilty plea.
The questions sought to ascertain that Cohen understood that he could only make this plea if he was truly guilty.
Cohen argued that he could not speak to the judge’s state of mind.
Justice Engoron then called an off-record sidebar with the attorneys.
“You lied more than once in federal court, correct?” Engoron asked Cohen.
“Correct,” Cohen said.
However, Cohen then started to walk back his previous claims.
Cohen said that he was not lying to the Permanent Select Committee when asked whether he was asked to inflate numbers.
“Not that I recall” Cohen previously told the Committee.
On Tuesday, however, Cohen said they never “overtly” said it that way.
He then continued to testify that he had lied to the Committee.
“You’re now saying that Mr. Trump did not direct you to inflate the numbers on the statements of financial condition,” defense attorneys asked.
Cohen did not answer until the judge compelled him to.
“I stand with that response. ‘Not that I recall,’” he said.
“So Mr. Trump never directed you to inflate the numbers on the financial statements?”
“Correct,” Cohen said, backtracking on what he said on Tuesday.
In response to Cohen’s admission, the defense requested that the case be brought to an end.
The radical judge then denied the defense’s request.
Prosecutors then questioned Cohen about his prior convictions where he pleaded guilty, and tried to enter his plea document into evidence as a consistent prior statement.
The defense objected, arguing that their documents were entered as a foundation to impeach the witness, whereas the prosecution was trying to “rehabilitate” a discredited witness.
The judge criticized both sides for “micromanaging” little details when they had a big case to go through.
Defense attorneys asked, again, for the case to be dismissed.
They argue, rightly so, that Cohen is an unreliable witness.
“Absolutely denied,” the judge said.
“This case has evidence, credible or not, all over the place.
“There’s a 200-page complaint … with evidence all over the place.”
The judge added that he did not consider Cohen a key witness.
“There’s enough evidence in this case to fill this courtroom,” he said.
He asked attorneys on both sides to stay and then dismissed everyone else, ending the trial for the day.
THAT PURE EVIL JUDGE NEEDS A EXORCISM FROM HIS RABBI!!
Ain’t Communism wonderful.
ENGORON IS A DISGUSTING EVIL MORON!
Wait until the realization of the amount of free publicity they are giving President Trump begins to sink in. If it was not for the prosecutions, there is zero chance he would get any media coverage. The trials are the core of the campaign, the remaining task is a full exploitation of changing voting practices.
The guy looks like a textbook pedophile and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s being blackmailed to railroad a judgment against the Trump family and to seize their properties.
Here’s the website for filing a complaint https://www.nycourts.gov/ip/judicialconduct/index.shtml
But for “covid” this paid off liar would still be in prison where he belongs.
THIS CASE HAS EVIDENCE...CREDIBLE OR NOT!!!
DOESN’T MATTER IF THE EVIDENCE IS TRUE! PURE EVIL!
So the state’s key witness has motive, opportunity, and a history of lying under oath, any unbiased jury would vote not guilty but don’t expect that to happen in a NY kangaroo court presided over by a deeply biased joke of a judge. Trump will be convicted. The case will be appealed and eventually he will be exonerated but not before he has spent millions of dollars and countless hours defending himself which is the whole point of the malicious prosecution.
He is a DISGUSTING DEMOCRAT POS!
“Bad obnoxious immoral unethical partisan judge.”
What do you expect, they were lawyers first? Innocence or guilt has nothing to do with our justice system. The system has gotten bigger than the people being tried. So it has become a space within itself and one that engulfs the reason for the trial with it’s procedures. The freedom is within the system, not the people within it. They are captives of it.
wy69
This statement from the judge seems a little shakey.....
obama judges don’t care”
Exactly, the truth has no relevance. I don’t know what defense there is for a rigged system.
Michael! You mean to tell me that you were lying about lying?
Dan Rather would say Mike was ‘lower than a Rat Snake’s belly!’
Since when are the bare allegations in a complaint considered evidence?
Can you win a case by drafting a long and detailed complaint?
Go figure...
He’s no longer useful to the prosecution. That’s how.
If I was this Judge Endmoron dude I would have walked out of the courtroom, resigned from my job, and perhaps even jumped off the roof of the building as soon as that fiasco unfolded in my courtroom on Wednesday.
“should have been a jury trial, this is a travesty with a biased judge.”
A jury trial was not an option with this charge. Also, this Judge was selected by the AG not by random rotation selection.
This Judge did not have to hold a hearing at all in this civil case. He could have made his ruling based on the written charges and written defense response only. That would have been quicker to an appeal overturn but I guess this Judge needed some time basking in the light of the famous.
NY Judge
“This case has evidence, credible or not, all over the place.
“There’s a 200-page complaint … with evidence all over the place.”
Interesting how when a Vice President is shaking down governments, corporations, and individuals for money using his family, “ITS NOT CREDIBLE” despite 40 people telling the
FBI that it was. When it’s anything Trump, even if the witnesses and the evidence is RIDICULOUS it’s suddenly Credible.
The new Speaker said in an interview that for the Republic to work it needed trust in Government, and that a the United States now had a Dual Justice System. He is correct, and the prosecutions of Trump prove that. Not one Biden has gone to trial, and the evidence has been around for a decade.
Whole lot of moon walking going on today. Michael Jackson would be impressed…
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