'MVP of Liars': Trump Closing Argument Hammers Cohen, Prosecution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : However, Blanche reminded jurors that Cohen himself testified to doing a significant amount of legal work for the Trumps while receiving those $35,000 a month retainer payments -- doing more such legal work than Cohen provided for other clients paying him higher retainer fees at the time:Cohen, Trump's former lawyer, told jurors that Trump ordered him to make the payment to silence Daniels, who alleged she had a sexual encounter with the former president.
46% : Again, go back to that point in the testimony, where Cohen admits that he did a substantial amount of legal work for Trump and his family while consistently promoting his status as "personal attorney to President Donald J. Trump."
45% : "How can it be there is any intent to defraud by President Trump when he discloses it to the IRS, he tweets about it, and he submits it on his ethics forms?"
37% : If Cohen performed legal work for Trump without any other compensation than the $35,000 per month he received, then those payments were entered properly in the ledger as legal fees.
35% : Not only did Blanche catch Cohen in significant lies and misrepresentations during cross-examination, he also forced Cohen to confess embezzlement from Trump -- giving a pretty good motive for why Cohen would lie on the stand in this case.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
31% : How can there be any fraud at all if Cohen did legal work for Trump while only getting the monthly retainer fee as compensation?
25% : Plus, jurors have to ask themselves why prosecutors essentially immunized Cohen for that felony to push a much-less serious case against Trump.
25% : "They did it to try to embarrass President Trump," Blanche argued.
25% : Blanche took direct aim at another point I have argued since last week -- that Cohen's testimony actually disproves the case against Trump.
23% : During Blanche's sprawling three-and-a-half hours of closing arguments he repeatedly attempted to drive home that Cohen was too untrustworthy and had lied too many times -- including directly to the jurors -- for them to convict Trump on his word.
23% : The indictment accuses Trump of falsifying the ledger entries of payments to Cohen as retainer payments rather than reimbursements for the payment to Daniels.
20% : He also raked the prosecution over the coals for dragging in irrelevant issues such as the Access Hollywood tape and Sunny Daniels herself, who didn't have anything to do with the ledger entries or the technical crimes of which Trump was accused.
17% : He didn't turn on Trump until after Trump chose Rudy Giuliani as his personal attorney in the Mueller probe, at which point Cohen grew angry at being left out.

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