1) Did Trump pay or cause to be paid 2) If so did he do with intent to commit or coverup another crime (tax fraud, election fraud)
Jonah Bromwich
May 28, 2024, 12:31 p.m. ET
Jonah Bromwich Reporting from inside the courthouse
Todd Blanche is now mocking Michael Cohen’s testimony about the evening of Oct. 24, 2016. This was testimony on which the defense lawyers felt they had scored a key point, because they found evidence that Cohen had talked to Keith Schiller, Trump's bodyguard, about a 14-year-old who was pranking him. Cohen later testified that he had talked to both Schiller and Trump during the call.
But the defense clearly thinks it has a winning argument here. “It was a lie,” Blanche yells of Cohen’s testimony that he talked to Trump about the hush-money payment that night. He follows up by calling it “perjury,” emphasizing each syllable in the word.
