I worked with Michael Cohen and covered Donald Trump. Guess which man I trust

[Uncle Joe]

Donald Trump and Michael Cohen (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper, however, apparently wasn’t impressed with Cohen’s performance in the cross-examination Thursday, calling it “severely damaging” to the prosecution’s case. “If I was a juror in this case watching that, I would think ‘this guy’s making this up as he’s going along, or he’s making this particular story up,” Cooper added.

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At the end of the day the only opinions that matter will be those of the members of the jury. So, I don’t care that Cooper wasn’t impressed by Cohen’s performance and find it completely asinine to tell me what he would think “If I was a juror.” He isn’t one.

When I managed a reporting staff, it was my standing rule for reporters to observe the jury and report their reactions to key testimony. Only Eisen offered me that regarding Blanche’s cross-examination of Cohen. “I was watching the jury throughout the day,” Eisen said,  “and in particular when the cross-examination was at its most intense, as on this point.  Their scrutiny of Cohen and of Blanche was as intense as the questioning itself, at least at its hotter moments.  Unlike prior points when their attitudes appeared more transparent — such as when Cohen candidly spoke directly to jurors Tuesday about his regrets for things he did out of loyalty to Trump — I  could not read  what they thought  today.”

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Cohen didn’t cut corners. He didn’t equivocate and he did not lie to me to make himself look better. He also told me his dream job wasn’t Attorney General, but he wanted to have the job of counsel to the president without being inside the White House. “That would be the best of both worlds,” he explained. When I asked him about other jobs at the White House, he was candid about that as well. “I may have thought about them, even maybe thought I wanted them, but I would be best in a hybrid role,” he explained. That’s exactly what he told the court when Blanche asked him in court Thursday – nearly two years after he said the same thing to me. His story has remained consistent.

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https://www.salon.com/2024/05/18/i-worked-with-michael-cohen-and-covered-donald-trump-guess-which-man-i-trust/

[onecaliberal]

1. People should absolutely believe the serial liar who lied about a free and fair election.

A liar who killed a million people with COVID.

But not the guy who lied for him, and went to prison because if him,

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Exactly who the FU$& does Cooper think he is to offer that OPINION on air

versus reporting what was said.

[Uncle Joe]

3. An influential employee for corporate media conglomerate CNN. n/t

[underpants]

4. AC had no business doing that. I watched much of that panel

They had a lawyer who worked for Trump on his immunity case. AC and almost everyone else, including a rotation of guests in the chair closest to the camera on the right, jumped on that day’s Trump victory train. Eisen was there and was having none of it. Toobin was there too and he and Eisen kept letting the air out of everyone’s balloon. Frankly I think AC and others in the media saw this as an opportunity to show “See! We can be not anti-Trump!”.

[KPN]

6. Perhaps you are giving AC -- and maybve the others -- too much credit with your last sentence.

[FakeNoose]

5. K & R - good column by Michael Karem