Why Michael Cohen’s Testimony Will Be So High-Stakes

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Only Cohen can tie together all the threads of the criminal scheme with which Trump is charged.

With Stormy Daniels’ time on the witness stand soon to end, the suspense at Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan builds toward the next truly dramatic moment: Michael Cohen’s appearance. There’s no way to exaggerate how memorable his testimony will be.

How do prosecutors disarm the defense that Trump didn’t know about the payoff? How do they answer Trump’s argument that jurors cannot credit a liar like Cohen when he says he was following Trump’s orders?The answer is “corroboration, corroboration, corroboration”—of every material fact that Cohen tells the jury. Corroboration comes in two basic forms.

about the scheme. Still, at this trial, any prosecutor questioning Cohen will be formal in tone and manner, signaling distance from a man painted in testimony as an aggressive boor and henchman.

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