They're trying to frame the former Trump fixer’s biggest weakness as a strength.
As Michael Cohen wrapped up more than 10 hours of direct examination on Tuesday, the prosecution tried to frame the former Trump fixer’s biggest weakness—his credibility issues—as a strength.
Prosecutors portrayed Cohen as a man who had committed many sins, mostly for Donald Trump, but had served and continues to serve his penalty. He has spent more than a year in a federal penitentiary—including significant time spent in solitary confinement that he alleges was part of Trump’s retaliation against him—and remains on supervised release.
Cohen described how he had previously apologized in congressional testimony for his work, allegedly on Trump’s behalf, to illegally influence the 2016 election. “I apologized to Congress, I apologized to the country, I apologized to my family,” he said, “for lying to them, for acting in a way to suppress information that the citizenry had the right to know in order to make a determination on the individual who was seeking the highest office in the land.
The jury also read mocking text conversations between Davidson and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard, during which Howard called Cohen “hopeless.”
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