Trump lawyers scramble as trial witnesses blow up Michael Cohen strategy: expert
Raw Story - 2024-04-30T21:20:10.000Z

Former top Justice Department prosecutor Andrew Weissmann claimed Tuesday that the witnesses being called in the Donald Trump hush money trial are confirming every detail of Michael Cohen's story — with bombshell accuracy. Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Weissmann said testimony from David Pecker, the ex-publisher of the National Enquirer, was "so powerful I think we have to recalibrate the lens [through which] we were thinking about this case."The assumption from legal analysts has been...

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