Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is “counting on” Michael Cohen lying during former President Donald Trump‘s criminal hush money trial, according to attorney and Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on Saturday.
Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is set to testify in the high-profile trial on Monday, which will determine whether the former president falsified business records over payments, allegedly facilitated by Cohen, to former adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair that happened in 2006 secret before the 2016 presidential election, as alleged in a criminal indictment.
Prosecutors led by Bragg allege the $130,000 payment was part of a scheme to stop potentially damaging stories about Trump from becoming public. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for the 2024 election, has denied any wrongdoing and that the affair ever happened. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges against him in the case.
In a Fox News opinion column published Saturday titled, “The prosecution’s star witness against Trump, Michael Cohen, is a chronic and habitual liar” Jarrett, a former defense attorney and author who is also known for his pro-Trump stances, discussed Cohen’s expected testimony as he claimed the district attorney is “counting on” Cohen to lie.
“As we enter the fourth week of testimony, none of the witnesses called thus far have connected Trump to any criminal wrongdoing. Apparently, Cohen is the prosecution’s only witness who can attempt to do that. He’ll lie, of course. It’s a given. And that’s what Bragg is counting on,” he wrote.
Jarrett also wrote the reasons prosecutors would not call on Cohen as a witness by pointing out Cohen’s previous jail sentence for tax and banking fraud, political campaign violations, and other offenses.
“It is indisputable that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s star witness, Michael Cohen, is an incurable and prodigious liar. It may take a full day in the courtroom just to read aloud his endless falsehoods and fabrications…No ethical prosecutor would ever dare to call such a ticking time bomb as his leading witness,” he added.
Newsweek has reached out to Bragg’s office and Cohen via email for comment.
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