May 28, 2024, 2:49 p.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

Joshua Steinglass is redefining Michael Cohen’s role for the jury. “Michael Cohen was really more of the defendant's fixer than his lawyer,” he says, calling Cohen “the guy with the boots on the ground that could bully people and threaten them with lawsuits.”

He asks jurors to remember that “we didn’t choose Michael Cohen to be our witness. We didn’t pick him up at the witness store.” Then he raises his voice and says that Trump chose Cohen “for the same qualities that his attorneys now urge you to reject his testimony because of.”


May 28, 2024, 2:49 p.m. ET


Kate ChristobekReporting from inside the courthouse

Steinglass adds that Trump chose Cohen “because he was willing to lie and cheat on Mr. Trump’s behalf.”