Are Trump's lawyers afraid of Michael Cohen's testimony ahead of the hush money trial?

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Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.

Are Donald Trump’s lawyers worried about Michael Cohen’s power as a prosecution witness? That’s one way to look at a bombastic letter they wrote to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. The defense letter complains that Bragg’s office prosecuted former Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg for perjury at the same time it intends to put Cohen on the stand against Trump.

And the defense will have the opportunity to cross-examine Cohen, who, to be sure, has a criminal history that a defense lawyer would want to explore in front of a jury. But it’s that jury that will determine the credibility of Trump’s former fixer in this case, as Engoron did in the civil case. Crucial to Engoron’s credibility finding was the corroboration of Cohen’s testimony by other evidence at trial.

 

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How Allen Weisselberg and Michael Cohen could affect Trump’s hush money trialLisa Rubin is an MSNBC legal correspondent and a former litigator. Previously, she was the off-air legal analyst for “The Rachel Maddow Show” and “Alex Wagner Tonight.”
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