Police were ordered to clear the court… but ALAN DERSHOWITZ stayed – and witnessed the most shocking moment of his 60-year legal career
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
The stench of deceit hung in the air as I sat in the front row of a Manhattan courtroom.
Seated on the witness stand, no more than a few feet from me, I watched in disbelief as Donald Trump‘s former lawyer Michael Cohen told the jury one seeming lie after another.
When asked by prosecutors on Monday whether he would financially benefit if Trump were convicted of falsifying business records to hide an alleged hush money payment to protect his 2016 presidential campaign, Cohen denied it.
Most significantly, I haven’t heard any evidence that Trump committed a crime.
The only testimony that even remotely speaks to the accusation is Cohen’s claim that Trump approved the alleged payoff to Stormy Daniels during a 96-second phone call.
But Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, got Cohen to admit that that phone conversation was, at least in part, about a prank caller who had been harassing Cohen.