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Dershowitz Says Trump Lawyers Should Make Key Demand In Hush Money Case

Charlie Kirk Staff

05/17/2024

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Dershowitz Says Trump Lawyers Should Make Key Demand In Hush Money Case

Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz believes that former President Donald Trump’s attorney should make a key demand in his Manhattan case in which he is alleged to have paid hush money payments to adult movie star Stormy Daniels.

The attorney said that the former president’s attorneys should request a “missing witness instruction” in his business records trial regarding former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg.

“The reason the government does want to call him seems obvious, that if he testified, he would testify against Cohen, he would not corroborate, he would undercut Cohen and that’s not good reason,” he said on an episode of his podcast.

He said that the prosecutors are required to call a witness that they control if that witness can provide evidence that benefits the defendant.

“The person who could have corroborated Cohen’s testimony if it’s true, if it’s true, that’s the key, is Allen Weisselberg, he’s sitting in prison under the control of government. The government snaps his fingers and puts him on as a witness. He could be called as a witness. The government has chosen not to call him as witness, and this issue should be litigated very extensively by Trump’s lawyers,” the attorney said.

“So, it starts by Trump’s lawyers making a motion calling for missing witness instruction: ‘Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, if there was a witness under the control of one side and that side declined to call them and his testimony would have been relevant, you can presume that the testimony would have been unfavorable,’” he said.

Another legal analyst had advice for the former president’s attorneys.

CNN analyst Elie Honig unveiled the strategy he would have employed to undermine the credibility of former President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, suggesting that Trump’s legal team had overlooked a chance to do so.

During a conversation with anchor Jake Tapper, Honig discussed the ongoing Manhattan hush-money trial involving the former president, outlining that the most effective strategy to demonstrate Cohen’s lack of credibility to the jury would be to highlight the numerous occasions in the past where he had been found to distort the truth.

Tapper started the conversation by observing that Trump attorney Todd Blanche had taken an intriguing approach, who began his cross-examination by reading a series of derogatory remarks Cohen had made or posted on social media about both Trump and Blanche.

“Do you have an idea why Blanche would start with that?” Tapper asked. “Because, I mean, it does kind of make it seem as though Michael Cohen is kind of just like a shoot-from-the-hip jerk and not necessarily focused entirely on Trump as a motive.”

“Well, I think it was a mistake to open the way that Todd Blanche opened. I absolutely never would have done it,” Honig replied. “It was properly sustained. First of all, it’s not the point. It’s not the point, does Michael Cohen hate Todd Blanche?”

“The point is, Michael Cohen hates and desperately wants the defendant, Donald Trump, in prison,” Honig continued. “Let me give you what I would have started with. We like to play like armchair prosecutor now that we’re no longer actual prosecutors. First question would have been, ‘Mr. Cohen, are you a perjurer?’ Okay? If he says ‘Yes,’ great! Folks, he’s a perjurer. He says ‘No,’ then you just hit him with the dozens of lies that he’s … He is a perjurer. I mean, that’s a fact. So it leaves him — it’s a win-win.”

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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