When you look into a sewer you don’t expect to see swans swimming.

May 28, 2024, 2:54 p.m. ET


Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

The argument that Joshua Steinglass is making about Michael Cohen right now is a prosecutorial classic when it comes to cooperating witnesses: if you want to know what happens in the gutter, you have to talk to the rats. But here, prosecutors are not talking about classic street crime, but about a plot to defraud the American people. “This case is not about Michael Cohen,” Steinglass says. “It’s about Donald Trump.”