and be at least raising doubts
about cohen and through cohen.
we saw that today because they
began by trying to deal with
this.
the trump lawyers have tried to
put cohen's credibility on the
trial.
the prosecutors had about i
would argue three main ways to
deal with this.
first, another reference to that
common sense we were talking
about.
consider the utterly damning
testimony of david pecker.
meaning they're arguing other
witnesses back up cohen.
so this case and these alleged
facts don't rise and fall on
just him.
second, they made a less legal
and more practical argument and
it's one that any trump observer
knows.
you do not need a law degree.
the people around trump who now
have yet again become legal
witnesses to trump's actions,
they're dodgy and sketchy and
sometimes outright criminal and
the prosecutor argued, that's
not a bug, that's a feature.
it's because trump picked them.
here's the quote, we didn't pick
michael cohen up at the witness
store.
no.
trump picked him.