'Lot of disgust there': Court insider flags Trump trial move that 'didn't land' with jury
Donald Trump's team of lawyers hit hard at the ex-president's former "fixer," but the same move didn't land when tried on another witness, according to a former prosecutor who was in the courtroom at the time.
Former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg appeared on MSNBC on Saturday, where she was asked about her attendance of Trump's criminal trial in New York. In that case, Trump faces numerous felony charges for an alleged scheme to cover up hush money payments meant to affect the 2016 election.
Regarding Cohen, Greenberg said that he was "the one witness where there should be an attack."
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"If anything I would argue the attack on Michael Cohen should have been sharper than it was," she said over the weekend. "With Stormy Daniels, it was completely ineffective."
She added that "they were really focused on attacking her credibility about whether or not not only the sexual encounter happened but calling her essentially a liar because she was a porn star, saying of course she would have wanted to engage in this encounter."
"All of which is really, you know, irrelevant and besides the point," Greenberg added. "It wasn't about, it isn't a sexual sought case. I feel like those attacks did not land with the jury in particular with the five women of the jury. Also the women in the public. Hearing the people exit the courtroom. There was a lot of disgust there. With Cohen, I think it is all fair game. This is somebody who has said a lot of negative things about Trump as well. All that is fair game for his cross."