Andrew Weissmann said on Sunday that Cohen «needs to maintain his cool» and «not be thin-skinned.»
Ahead of Michael Cohen’s witness testimony in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, legal analyst Andrew Weissmann said on Sunday that Cohen should emulate former adult film star Stormy Daniels’ conduct on the witness stand.
Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, is set to testify in the high-profile trial on Monday, which will determine whether the former president falsified business records over payments, allegedly facilitated by Cohen, to Daniels to keep an alleged affair that happened in 2006 secret before the 2016 presidential election, as alleged in the criminal indictment.
Prosecutors led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg allege the $130,000 payment was part of a scheme to stop potentially damaging stories about Trump from becoming public. Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee for the 2024 election, has denied any wrongdoing and that the affair ever happened. The former president has pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges against him in the case.
In a Sunday interview on MSNBC’s Inside with Jen Psaki, Weissmann, the former general counsel for the FBI who also served as lead prosecutor in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign, discussed Cohen’s expected testimony as he was asked by Psaki what he would be worried about if he was the prosecution.
