Todd Blanche seemed to be looking for a ‘gotcha’ – instead there was laughter in the viewing room and one irked judge
So shouted a pool reporter outside a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday afternoon shortly after Trump’s lead attorney, Todd Blanche, started cross examining former fixer turned prosecution witness,Indeed, this was the same question on everyone’s mind during cross-examination. Blanche tried to lob gotcha questions at Cohen. In turn, Cohen would retort with brief responses, spurring full-throated laughter in the overflow viewing room.
“At whose direction, and on whose behalf, did you commit that crime?” prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked him.So Blanche needs Cohen to look bad, to mitigate the damage of these statements.“I don’t know if I would characterize it as obsessed, but I admired him tremendously.”“That he’s a man who tells it straight?” Cohen said, “Yes, sir.”Blanche asked Cohen about items that are shown on his podcast’s website, including a shirt with Trump in an orange jumpsuit, which he showed in court.
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