After five hours of cross-examination, in which attorney Todd Blanche sought to paint Michael Cohen as a liar, an unhinged user of social media and a man bitter that he never got a job in the White House, Donald Trump's defense team on Thursday finally got around to addressing what the former president's onetime fixer said on the stand earlier this week.
Cohen, who in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison for his own role in the hush money scheme, had testified that he received explicit approval from Trump to buy Stormy Daniels' silence ahead of the 2016 election. On Tuesday, prosecutors introduced phone logs showing that Cohen called Trump's personal body guard, Keith Schiller. Cohen testified that he often called Schiller in order to speak with Trump, saying he did so on Oct. 24, 2016, "to discuss the Stormy Daniels matter and the resolution of it."
