Former President Donald Trump got upset with his former fixer and important witness Michael Cohen in an interview for local news, before a hearing for breaking multiple media communication rules, which was aired hours later.
There was tension on Tuesday in the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial. as Judge Juan Merchan presided over a hearing on Trump’s violations of media communication rules before former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker continued his testimony. got heated.
A key part of those violations is Trump’s repeated criticism of witnesses like Cohen, which Trump did in an interview with Walter Perez of a local news reporter from Philadelphia’s WPVI 6ABC. The interview was recorded just before the hearing but aired on Tuesday night. You can watch the interview above from
WALTER PEREZ: Now, I’d like to shift to the trial, if we could, for one second. Where is your concern level at this point regarding David Pecker’s testimony and Michael Cohen’s testimony?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, Michael Cohen is a convicted liar and he’s got no credibility whatsoever. He was a lawyer and you rely on your lawyers.
But Michael Cohen was a convicted liar. He was a lawyer for many people, not just me. And he got in trouble because of things outside of what he did for me, largely, it was essentially all because what he did in terms of campaign, I don’t think there was anything wrong with that with the charges that they made.
But what he did is he did some pretty bad things, I guess, with banking or whatever. But that was a personal thing to him.
David Pecker, I don’t know exactly what he’s going to be testifying against, but. Or about. But he’ll be testifying today. If you look at Andy McCarthy, if you look at Jonathan Turley, if you look at everybody, they wrote articles today and yesterday. They heard everything about the case. They said, there is no case. There is no case.
