Extra: In Trump Trial Prosecution Endgame Michael Cohen Explains Merch As Prepares for Cross

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by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack

SDNY COURTHOUSE, May 14 – In the Trump Trial, Michael Cohen's second day on direct examination was stretched all the way to 1 pm, the lunch break.

It veered into his post-arrest dalliance with Robert Costello, later to testify to rebut him before the New York grand jury.

It touched on two more banks - Sterling National bank where he was on an advisory board (subject not mentioned) and TD, where he opened a safety deposit box.

  Finally, the mea culpas. About his podcasts, his merch (only one item in the catalogue, he pointed out, has Trump's image on it), his lost moral compass and taxi medallions.   

Throughout the morning, even as Mike Johnson thundered about the gag order out in Collect Pond Park, Trump's lead lawyer Todd Blanche, fixing for the cross, made only a few wan objections.

There were limiting instructions, such as that material about AMI came in only to assess David Pecker's credibility. Would jurors when the time came even remember him?

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