He’s also a bit of a problem for the prosecution, because he’s very much painting himself as a filthy liar with a vendetta against Trump, and this makes him anything but a credible witness.
He’s already fudged a couple of please, which means he either puttered himself during testimony or is lying during a conditional release hearing. A judge has already denied relief on these grounds, and it will make the prosecution’s job in the NY case difficult because, well, he’s a scumbag— which is why Trump hired him. But it also makes him a very troublesome witness to call.
Having scumbags rat out larger scumbags is something these people do all the time with mob and gang cases. And prosecutors have a high success rate with those cases in this court.
Right, but the problem is that if Cohen is such a shitty scumbag, some jurors might doubt his testimony, even if he just so happens to be telling the truth, just this once.
And he’s a really shitty scumbag.
