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Michael Pope. ah, legally. after the Trump

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On Trial Update on the closing argument

0:34

by Todd Blanche for Donald Trump one

0:37

trial lawyer. talk about another trial Or

0:39

I'll tell you straight, it was a

0:41

disjointed mess. Not only that, because Todd

0:43

Branch has not try to case and

0:45

a long long time hasn't done closing

0:48

argument or summation in front of a

0:50

jury in a long long time. He

0:52

screwed up. He. Screwed up so

0:54

badly that the judge how to chastise

0:56

them, excoriate him told him again, you're

0:59

a thirteen year Federal prosecutor. You know

1:01

better why? Because he looked the jury

1:03

in the eye and he violated the

1:05

golden Rule one of the golden rules

1:08

and trial we literally call it. that

1:10

is, you can't look Duke Juri in

1:12

the I during closing and tell them,

1:14

please Pretty please don't send my client

1:17

to present. You. Can't

1:19

do that. You. Can't ask

1:21

the jury to put themselves in his

1:23

position or to use your credibility as

1:25

a lawyer to bolster your clients and

1:28

say he shouldn't go to prison. You

1:30

shouldn't send him to prison. Please don't

1:32

set of the President. That.

1:34

Is an improper transference that is

1:37

a violation of the golden rule.

1:39

It's so bad that Judge Bershad

1:41

once the jury was excuse for

1:43

lunch after hearing argument from Just

1:45

Eyeglass on behalf of the prosecutors

1:47

excoriated. Mister Blanche.

1:50

Admonished. It was angry. Visibly

1:52

angry that you know better. You.

1:55

Know you were a prosecutor for thirteen years. You

1:57

were the head of the criminal division for the

1:59

Us Attorney's Office. You know that you're not

2:01

supposed to do that. I'm going to give

2:03

a security of instruction and hope it works.

2:05

A curators instruction little break out session here

2:08

or Patriarch breakout sessions. A Cured of Instructions

2:10

is done by the judge after the bell

2:12

has been wrong on the violation of a

2:14

ruler. a golden rule or something like that

2:16

looks the jury in the eye and says

2:18

everything that person said at the end about

2:21

trying to make you feel sorry and pity

2:23

for his client Asked him not to go

2:25

to jail to do inappropriate you are to

2:27

disregard. That is it's attempt

2:29

to cure the problems of mitigates the

2:32

issue raised by Todd Bless that was

2:34

at the very end of his couple

2:36

hours or so of closing, but he

2:38

lost his mind. As because he's Rusty's

2:40

because he's out of practice at his.

2:42

He's got his clients hand up his

2:45

back. Of being kind here and

2:47

this is the case of a lifetime for him.

2:49

He's. He left his

2:51

his lucrative law practice the opened up his

2:53

own shop. He took up an office inside

2:55

of Donald Trump's own a building A Forty

2:58

Wall Street is got no other clients that

3:00

Donald Trump effectively. And

3:02

the pressure was on. Now the rest of it.

3:05

The. Rest of it is what we expected. A

3:07

dump on Michael Cohen and he used

3:09

or at an all these sports metaphors

3:11

and analogies used. Michael Cohen is the

3:13

G Alloway to seize the greatest liar

3:16

of all time. A play on the

3:18

word goat which used to be assigned

3:20

a Muhammad Ali back in the day

3:22

scrapes he of the greatest, greatest of

3:24

all time. gloat. That's an interesting word

3:26

to leave and the jury's mind because

3:28

it looks like Donald Trump, not Michael

3:30

Cohen is gloating over or what's going

3:32

on and trials. And and believe me,

3:35

this Juri knows what Donald Trump's been

3:37

doing. Outside, the four walls of

3:39

this Juri and of this courtroom

3:41

sort of the i'm not sure

3:43

you want to leave that with

3:45

the jury g Alloway to gloat.

3:48

And. That, of course they said all.

3:50

Michael Cohen is the Mvp Most Valuable

3:52

Player of of liars. He is the

3:55

embodiment. the physical embodiment of a reasonable

3:57

doubt. Ladies and gentlemen, the problem without

3:59

argue. Is that

4:02

the prosecution has spent

4:04

six weeks, twenty witnesses,

4:07

hundreds of pieces of

4:09

evidence, audiotapes, text messages,

4:11

photographs, and testimony to

4:14

inoculate. About this

4:16

argument. To. Immunized the jury

4:18

from this argument that the entire

4:20

case hinges on the slender shoulders

4:22

of Michael Cohen. It doesn't. Michael.

4:25

Cohen.was any were blanche said I'm

4:27

I'm sure the jury will recall

4:30

is not the only witness that

4:32

establishes criminal intent criminal mind for

4:34

Donald Trump or his participation in

4:37

this twenty six Teams conspiracy. He

4:39

is not. David. Packer testified

4:42

for two days and that connects

4:44

Donald Trump and Twenty Sixteenth. Just

4:46

Mccarty can and his notes about

4:48

the conspiracy in the payments and

4:50

repayments. The Michael Cohen connect Donald

4:52

Trump to It's Such shacks that

4:54

Todd Blanche. Sad to admit during

4:56

his closing. at times I thought

4:59

I was listening to the closing

5:01

argument for the prosecution because he

5:03

had to admit there were nine

5:05

checks signed by Donald Trump while

5:07

he was in the White House.

5:09

and he wants the. Jury to believe.

5:11

Oh you so busy being president the first

5:13

few days he didn't know what he was

5:15

signing. He. Didn't know what he

5:18

was citing. the guy they already heard

5:20

past from his books who said he's

5:22

He's a studious about details, his attention

5:25

to detail. He picks up pennies and

5:27

nichols in front of a steamroller. That.

5:30

Donald Trump didn't know what he was

5:32

signing. His own Executive assistant testified that

5:34

she would send him shaq to the

5:36

White House from his personal bank accounts

5:38

or from the company's bank accounts and

5:40

if he didn't like the checks he

5:42

would cross in our reputable said A

5:45

to her. So.

5:47

Where's the evidence that you know They

5:49

brought him in. Also a whole raft

5:51

of paper and he did know what

5:53

he was citing. Oh, what's this Michael

5:55

Cohen juckes? Thirty Five Thousand dollars? Really?

5:57

that that penny pinching. Pennies.

6:00

Why pound foolish Donald Trump didn't know

6:02

what he was signing but were shot

6:04

by Blanche. had it would miss if

6:07

the jury that there were nine

6:09

checked side by client side is an

6:11

indicator in addition of willfulness of intense

6:13

of involvement, the conspiracies and then when

6:16

all else failed him. And.

6:18

I love this on I've presented to dozens

6:20

and dozens at least three dozen juries. In

6:22

closing in my life. And

6:25

closing arguments. He. Thought

6:27

wage actually look the during the eye

6:29

and said there are ten juries. Love

6:31

numbers like that. There are ten reasons.

6:34

There. Is reasonable doubt in this case with

6:36

of beauty embodiment of it as Michael Collins

6:38

And he starts to go through the ten,

6:40

he stumbles around a number for he gives

6:43

short shrift to the others, and even as

6:45

number four is broken into three supports you

6:47

think the jury's really following along on this.

6:50

I once had a trial team that worked

6:52

under me tell me that there were going

6:54

to present a to about getting a ten

6:56

part a ten step plan that are going

6:59

to present to the jury. I said stop.

7:01

Stop. Missouri is never going

7:03

to follow you through a tensed up plan.

7:06

You'd. Better come up with a shorter plan. And

7:09

and there's reporting from inside the room

7:11

that even the jury for person who

7:13

sits and seat number one started to

7:15

look. Ah, it's like almost

7:17

rolled their eyes and certainly had

7:19

a bemused look on their face.

7:21

Not at a good way with

7:24

tablets were seeking, especially when Todd

7:26

Lives tried to downplay the access

7:28

Hollywood hot might the moment. Which.

7:31

The prosecution a said is the

7:33

flame. That list is the match

7:35

that list of Fuse that started

7:37

the conspiracy that the campaign freaked

7:40

out about the Access Hollywood Hop

7:42

Mike moment which had been recorded

7:44

three years earlier secretly but released

7:46

in the October leading into the

7:49

November election. It's when he sixteenth

7:51

against Hillary Clinton. We. Know

7:53

that because Hope Hicks testified to that's

7:55

and she was the press secretary. That

7:59

of campaigns. Freaked out because he was.

8:01

He was hurt. Our is Mike Not A

8:03

I? Not the fake Donald Trump saying he

8:05

could grab a woman's private parts and get

8:07

away with it because he's a celebrity. And

8:10

they freaked out. And they didn't need any more

8:12

sex stories on top of that once, including the

8:14

one by Stormy Daniels or Camera Mcdougall. So

8:17

so when I he got to

8:19

the Access Hollywood portion of his

8:21

closing. Are the best players could

8:23

come up with is there was nothing of a

8:25

deal. It was a good other day and the

8:28

campaign to which the four percent according to people

8:30

who observe them. Sort. Of like rolled

8:32

his eyes and Zoc like that's a normal day and

8:34

the campaign. But

8:36

it was a stoplight sort of saw that

8:38

so he tried to a walk it back.

8:40

Well yeah of course it was important stuff

8:42

because us in a millennia would have been

8:44

of said the family was of says all

8:46

about the family. By. The only testimony

8:48

that the jury heard about that is Hope

8:51

Hicks saying and one of his existence thanks

8:53

that Donald Trump didn't want the daily newspaper

8:55

said to his house because Millennium I read

8:57

it. I don't think that's gonna be enough

8:59

for the jury to conclude that this was

9:01

not about election interference, but this was about

9:03

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9:06

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9:08

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And Ninety Nine be. There.

10:58

Was a deposition of Ivana Weiss number one

11:00

in which she said that she was sexually

11:02

assaulted by Donald Trump while they were married

11:04

to see New which he was marrying. So.

11:07

That whole molony a thing sort

11:09

of doesn't work. or the other

11:12

thing that does it work in

11:14

toddler just convoluted upside down half

11:16

baked presentation to the jury. Was.

11:19

His whole alternate conspiracy theory. Oh,

11:21

here we go. There is a

11:23

second shooter, right? Only to laugh

11:25

at A bus in other your

11:27

Kennedy. There was a grassy knoll,

11:29

was another shooter. During. Are

11:32

you know that the in Dallas that day.

11:34

So. Instead you hear from top list of

11:36

the jury there's an alternate conspiracy. It didn't

11:38

evolve Donald Trump's it was the National Enquirer

11:41

with with Us or the Carry Mcdougall and

11:43

a Stormy Daniels of the world than the

11:45

editor, the publishers and they were all involved

11:47

in. and then nothing to do with Donald

11:49

Trump. Will then how do you

11:51

explain? Michael Cohen. Is for being

11:53

on an audio tapes Donald Trump

11:56

that which Donald Trump participates that

11:58

acknowledges the existence of a pay

12:00

off the stormy Day and and

12:02

Donald Trump paying for this stuff.

12:04

The pay off in paying back

12:06

Michael Michael Cohen three fold to

12:09

cover his taxes because this was

12:11

a phony Sam At transaction. Ah,

12:13

When he was back in the White

12:16

House would use in the White House

12:18

which is exactly where he wanted to

12:20

be has the election interference. The more

12:22

tightly a chance to talk about the

12:24

lighthouse the more it reminds the jury

12:26

that that Donald Trump successfully executed the

12:28

conspiracy tamp down on all of these

12:30

sex stories and won the election over

12:32

Hillary Clinton. Every

12:35

last bit different arguments we would

12:37

have elected interferes necessarily. Someone

12:40

just signed last fall. He gets up for the

12:42

prosecution and walks through all the evidence of the

12:44

elements of this case. They. Should

12:46

be based on.summation by Trump and

12:48

he went first. The

12:51

should be a no brainer. and the

12:53

fact that a rusty freaky Todd plans

12:55

you as and try to case and

12:57

alongside like like the Tin Man in

12:59

The Wizard of Oz. Oil.

13:03

Or all. That

13:05

I've litigated against trial lawyers who haven't tried to

13:07

case in a long, long time. And it shows.

13:10

I. Had one just like toddler age are Miss Miss

13:12

Try the case I was above with because he had

13:14

try a case in over ten years. Same.

13:16

Thing with are blessed. I want everybody

13:18

on legally off and on my own.

13:20

Optics Todd by as is Rusty. he's

13:23

making mistakes he does note is on

13:25

his feet and a states criminal court

13:27

proceedings. He's at best a federal former

13:29

prosecutor who hasn't been inside of a

13:32

New York state's court trying to case

13:34

ever and it shows. Sassy when you

13:36

have do you know he couldn't get

13:38

through his opening without objections and out

13:41

as closing. The judge has to go

13:43

so far as the give a cure.

13:45

it isn't structure. To the jury's and

13:47

hope it resolves the issue. With.

13:51

That's going to be an issue on appeal. If.

13:53

Something goes awry. The.

13:56

Heat or blades just handed the prosecution

13:58

an issue. Will appeal. For the

14:00

appellate court to decide whether that cured of

14:02

construction works depending upon the results of this

14:04

case. I gotta

14:06

jump out with ah takes like this or that

14:09

burns my backside. I. Don't really care

14:11

about what's going on outside. I mean, it's

14:13

interesting. The Robert Deniro, Stephen Chong, and others,

14:15

all the press conferences, and ah, there's a

14:17

little bit of a little bit of a

14:19

village that has been created out in front

14:21

of. You know, one

14:23

Centre Street a criminal court house? I haven't

14:25

been there in about two weeks. Somebody go

14:27

down there again. I don't really care about

14:29

that when I care about is what's inside

14:31

the courtroom and in the hearts and minds

14:33

of twelve jurors who are hearing the presentations

14:35

evidence. And. If that is the best

14:38

that they have. Then.

14:40

Then Trump I believe has lost. I.

14:42

Believe as a greater than eighty percent chance that this

14:45

is gonna be a conviction we may not know this

14:47

week and of the next week. There.

14:49

Is just an overwhelming mountain

14:51

of evidence that defeats any

14:54

reasonable doubt. And. It's and

14:56

gives the credit to the prosecution. If I'm

14:58

right. Because. They inoculated.

15:01

And they immunized this juri from the attack

15:03

on Michael Collins. This is the reason that

15:05

it was so they were so late them

15:07

and at the a bringing this case. Size

15:11

Aunts. Who carefree

15:13

minute know my colleague workforce. Before

15:15

he retired, he started the investigation.

15:17

He did not bring that prosecution.

15:19

The only. Prosecutor. In

15:22

New York who brought successfully prosecutions

15:24

against Donald Trump is Alvin Brock.

15:27

Who. Was elected after that. He.

15:29

He got seventeen count criminal conviction against

15:31

the Trump organisation entities for tax fraud

15:33

and business record for I just like

15:35

now and he's the one that brought

15:37

this case. Now the reporting is that

15:39

Alvin. Was. Concerned about Michael

15:41

two years ago. That. If the

15:43

entire case hinged on Michael's he was

15:45

not comfortable. But when the prosecutors presented

15:48

their taste alvin so the reporting goes.

15:50

Out and Brag. Got lot more comfortable

15:52

because of the overwhelming amount of corroborating

15:55

evidence that the jury would here even

15:57

before they heard from Michael. Cohen is

15:59

less once. There's a reason Michael

16:01

Cole went towards the end of

16:03

the case and not at the

16:05

beginning of the case because they're

16:07

needed to be. Twenty other witnesses.

16:09

Corroborating, read, corroborating, reinforcing, insulating. Michael

16:11

call it before he took the

16:13

state and that's exactly what happened.

16:15

The jury would have to ignore

16:17

twenty other witnesses, nineteen other witnesses,

16:19

and audio recordings and text messages

16:21

and checks and ledgers and general

16:23

ledgers. and the testimony of people

16:25

inside the Trump Organization, including the

16:27

money people. An outside

16:30

people like David Parker involved with

16:32

the conspiracy that in order to

16:34

exonerate Donald Trump. Okay,

16:38

Yes, Michael Cohen is a complicated witness

16:40

with talked about it at length make

16:42

sometimes he made himself a little bit

16:44

more complicated by talking about the case,

16:46

Writing about the case, Podcasting

16:49

about the case I guess. But

16:52

the jury. Can. Believe

16:54

Michael Cohen. Now coming

16:56

clean. having served his time. As.

16:59

Debt to society add turning over

17:01

a new lease, He

17:03

looked at Juri the ice and I don't

17:05

think that the prosecution could have asked for

17:08

a better version of Michael Cohen that What

17:10

that? what are what happened address parts. Sure,

17:12

there are moments. A little bit of us

17:14

hair raising moments are some cross examination, but

17:16

by and large, Michael Cohen did well. As.

17:19

A jury has to remember that as well

17:21

and the prosecution will remind that will follow

17:23

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17:26

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