The altercation everyone’s been waiting for finally happened when Trump’s attorney cast doubt on whether Cohen actually spoke with the ex-president on a fateful night in 2016.
moments.” The 77-year-old likes to reference the TV series from his childhood and the dramatic legal showdowns in real life which so far seem to be the only things keeping him fully awake during his own trials.
As a case that at its core is about falsifying business records, it mattered that Cohen on Tuesday told prosecutors he specifically recalled phoning Trump’s bodyguard on Oct. 26, 2016, having him pass the phone to the boss and getting the politician to personally greenlight the hush money deal. “This number has just been sent to secret service,” Cohen texted the other person, citing “your ongoing and continuing harassment.”
“You will need to explain this to secret service as we’ve been receiving dozens of these harassing calls over the past 3 days. I suggest you notify your parent or guardian,” Cohen texted back.“Please have your parent or guardian contact me,” Cohen texted, before following up with “before secret services reaches out to them.”
Cohen missed Schiller’s call 13 minutes later, then phoned him right back at 8:02 p.m. Records show the call lasted one minute and 36 seconds. Immediately thereafter, Cohen sent him the prankster’s number.These phone records—which tell a wider story than the one prosecutors presented earlier this week—gave Trump’s team an opening to accuse Cohen of fabricating the true purpose of the call.
Cohen asserted that was enough time to cover both issues, pushing the defense lawyer further into overdrive.
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