{"id":18991,"date":"2024-05-11T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/the-prosecutions-star-witness-against-trump-michael-cohen-is-a-chronic-and-habitual-liar\/"},"modified":"2024-05-11T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T12:47:20","slug":"the-prosecutions-star-witness-against-trump-michael-cohen-is-a-chronic-and-habitual-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/11\/the-prosecutions-star-witness-against-trump-michael-cohen-is-a-chronic-and-habitual-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"The prosecution\u2019s star witness against Trump, Michael Cohen, is a chronic and habitual liar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of the greatest legal thrillers in film history,\u00a0\u2018Witness for the Prosecution\u2019 (1957), the intrepid defense attorney confronts in court the prosecution\u2019s star witness with her many lies. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Played by the legendary actor Charles Laughton, the renowned barrister utters two famous sentences that have been recited by real defense attorneys ever since: \u2018The question is\u2026were you lying then or are you lying now?\u00a0Are you\u00a0not\u00a0a chronic and habitual liar!\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is indisputable that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s star witness, Michael Cohen, is an incurable and prodigious liar.\u00a0It may take a full day in the courtroom just to read aloud his endless falsehoods and fabrications. \u00a0<\/p>\n

So, don\u2019t be surprised if the insufferable Cohen is bedeviled with Laughton\u2019s exact same words when he is cross-examined this week by lawyers for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Weaponization of the law or \u2018lawfare,\u2019 by any means, is now justified.\u00a0It\u2019s the popular currency among Biden Democrats.\u00a0Abiding by the rule of law is a mere inconvenience, a pesky nuisance.\u00a0It can be discarded like yesterday\u2019s trash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cohen is a disgraced, disbarred, and convicted perjurer who resided in a federal prison for\u00a0the incalculable number of lies he peddled for years.\u00a0He lied to banks, and he lied to Congress.\u00a0Undeterred, Cohen is still lying.\u00a0He is the subject of even more pending perjury referrals to the Department of Justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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For example, six months ago Cohen admitted that he lied under oath when he copped his original guilty plea.\u00a0That prompted an incensed federal judge to denounced him recently as a \u2018serial perjurer.\u2019\u00a0Like Laughton, the judge said he wondered whether Cohen was lying then or lying now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cohen is what is known as a Pinocchio witness.\u00a0His nose is already so elongated that he may have trouble navigating himself through the courtroom door when he takes the stand on Monday.\u00a0If he took a lie detector test, the machine would explode in flames.<\/p>\n

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With Cohen, it\u2019s not a question of linguistic differences.\u00a0Whenever he speaks, his statements are either demonstrable deceptions or obvious lies.\u00a0 He wouldn\u2019t know the truth if it slapped him upside his swollen head. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Like Stormy Daniels before him, Cohen thinks he will be hailed as the indomitable Trump-slayer who saves America.\u00a0In truth, he\u2019s a loathsome and pathetic figure.\u00a0Delusional, pompous, immoral, vengeful, and dishonest.\u00a0And that\u2019s just the top five in a long list of miserable human afflictions.<\/p>\n

No ethical prosecutor would ever dare to call such a ticking time bomb as his leading witness.\u00a0But Bragg and his team of partisan Democrats are desperate to nail Trump.\u00a0They are bereft of the kind of moral code that normally restrains government prosecutors. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the Age of Trump, decency is eclipsed by the political imperative of disabling Joe Biden\u2019s opponent in the upcoming presidential election.\u00a0 Dictates of conscience are secondary to achieving the goal of wrongfully convicting an electoral enemy. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Weaponization of the law or \u2018lawfare,\u2019 by any means, is now justified.\u00a0It\u2019s the popular currency among Biden Democrats.\u00a0Abiding by the rule of law is a mere inconvenience, a pesky nuisance.\u00a0It can be discarded like yesterday\u2019s trash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That is exactly what Bragg has done.\u00a0His case against the accused is beyond anemic.\u00a0It is an audacious corruption of the legal process. \u00a0<\/p>\n

To fulfill his campaign promise to put Trump behind bars, the D.A. orchestrated a phony case by manipulating an inapplicable and expired misdemeanor statute.\u00a0Then, in a head-spinning pirouette, he usurped federal authority to enforce campaign laws that were never violated. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Voil\u00e0!\u00a0A criminal case.\u00a0In name only.<\/p>\n

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On direct examination, prosecutors will try to foreclose the Laughton line of questioning by preempting the attack.\u00a0They\u2019ll elicit voluntarily from Cohen his past lying transgressions but try to temper them in the most innocuous way.\u00a0 Cohen will assure the jury that he is a reformed sinner and is now sincerely telling the truth. \u00a0<\/p>\n

No sentient person should ever believe him. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Like Daniels, Cohen has made a career out of spewing his hatred for Trump.\u00a0Indeed, he profits from it financially.\u00a0 His livelihood depends on it.\u00a0Hence, he has every motive to embellish, invent, and lie.\u00a0It is his only talent.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

On cross-examination, it is inevitable that Cohen will get bludgeoned.\u00a0It\u2019s too easy.\u00a0There are simply too many bald-faced lies that can never be explained away or excused.\u00a0This won\u2019t be a beat-down, it\u2019ll be a savage mauling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Cohen\u2019s most recent social media antics will be rich fodder for the defense.\u00a0During the trial, he has taken to TikTok while trolling for dollars by trashing Trump.\u00a0He wore a T-shirt depicting his former boss behind bars in an orange jumpsuit.\u00a0In another appearance, Cohen sported a Superman top because, in his twisted and delusional mind, he sees himself as the superhero of this legal farce.\u00a0Here I come to save the day!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Basically, Cohen persists in acting like an idiot, which proves the wisdom of the great American philosopher, Forrest Gump, who observed, \u2018Stupid is as stupid does.\u2019<\/p>\n

As we enter the fourth week of testimony, none of the witnesses called thus far have connected Trump to any criminal wrongdoing.\u00a0Apparently, Cohen is the prosecution\u2019s only witness who can attempt to do that.\u00a0 He\u2019ll lie, of course.\u00a0It\u2019s a given.\u00a0And that\u2019s what Bragg is counting on. \u00a0<\/p>\n

By putting a proven liar with no credibility on the stand, the D.A. is knowingly suborning perjury, which is a criminal act.\u00a0 He knows in advance that Cohen will never tell the truth.\u00a0 But who will prosecute Bragg and his confederates? \u00a0<\/p>\n

The question answers itself.<\/p>\n\n

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