Unfixable: Michael Cohen Faces Reckoning Of Biblical Proposals On Cross Examination

Authorized by Jonathan Turley,

Below is my column in the fresh York Post on the first day of the exam of Michael Cohen. He is expected to start his cross examination today. How bad will it be? After going to Congress, courts, banks, and most everyone else, it will be bad. Years ago, Cohen thrilled a writer and told him “What I’m going to do to you is going to be f—ing tasting.” Well, that bad. On cross examination, Cohen faces a recycling of biblical opportunities.

Michael Cohen appearedly wants a reality show but, If his evidence Monday is any indication, reality is about to sink in for not just Cohen but the prosecutors and the court.

In stoking interest in his own appearance, the forumr Trump council promoted the public that they should be “prepared to be surprised.”

Thus far, however, Cohen has offered nothing fresh and, more importantly, nothing to make the case for Manhattan territory lawyer Alvin Bragg.

Just before he took the stand, the fresh York Post revealed that Cohen has been peddling a reality show called “The Fixer,” including working with Colin Whelan, who helped make “Joe Exotic: Tigers, Lies and Cover-Up.” Whelan apples curious to stay within that gene.

The Cohen pitch came with a cheery promo video where he promoted viewers, “I am your fixer.”

His first post-Trump client, Bragg, may gotta disagree.

Cohen had only 1 advantage for Bragg: His notoriously flexible morals and ethics, which allows him to say most anything to support his sponsors.

With the prosecution’s case almost over, Bragg needed Cohen to clearly state that Trump intentionally committed fraud to conceal any inactive badly defined crime.

The problem is that Cohen only confirmed that Trump knew he was going to pay for the nondisclosure agreement and that it would be buried before the election. no of that is unlawful.

On his reality show promo, Cohen tells viewers that he is now there to fix their problems due to the fact that “the small guy doessn’t usually have access to people with my partial set of skills.”

These skills seem to have escaped all of the witnesses who were compelled to work with him.

Witnesses detailed how Cohen was ridiculed as individual “prone to execute” and unprofessional.

Former Trump associate Hope Hicks said that Cohen was constantly trying to inspire himself into the run and that he “used to like to call himself Mister Fix It, but it was only due to the fact that he first broke it.”

Cohen only successful in confirming that he put together this payment and advised Trump to go forward with it.

He asked him that it would effectively kill the communicative before the election.

None of that is illegal. The “Fix it man” Assured Trump that he fixed it and now wants Trump to go to jail for following that advice.

In the course of that presentation, Cohen besides admitted to taping his client without his knowledge, a breaking breath of trust and confidence.

This is the man who, according to Stormy Daniels’ attorney, Keith Davidson, expected to be Trump’s lawyer General.

Davidson said that Cohen was “depressed and representative” and “I thought he was going to kill himself” erstwhile he realized that he would not be made a cabinet member.

Cohen contradicated Davidson and insisted that he only wanted to be Trump’s individual lawyer.

He besides admitted that he was unaware that the publisher of National Enquirer, David Pecker, had long killed negative stories about Trump and another celebrities for decades.

Cohen has yet to fix the problem for Bragg.

More importantly, he has added to the problem for justice Juan Merchan. Many of us have ridiculed this case as devoid of any criminal act.

Indeed, Merchan has allowed the prosecutors to proceed without clearly stationing what crime was being undertaken.

It is not even clear why paying one’s lawyer a lump sum for his services and costs (including the NDA payment) was not a “legal expense” or how it was supported to be entered on a business ledger.

Absent a abrupt epiphany in his final evidence on Tuesday, Merchan should regulation in favour of a directed verdict — that is, Throwing the case out before it goes to a jury. If he alternatively sents this casual case to the jury, it is Merchan, not Cohen, who may have a better claim to a reality show as the eventual “Fixer.”