'That's going to irritate him': Michael Cohen predicts Trump will blow up on the stand
November 06, 2023
Former President Donald Trump is likely going to be angered into a meltdown when he takes the witness stand to testify in his New York civil fraud trial on Monday, according to former attorney Michael Cohen.
During an appearance on CNN, Cohen took questions about how he believed Trump would comport himself during his Monday testimony at the fraud trial.
"I want to start with what we heard from [former White House communications official] Anthony Scaramucci last hour," said anchor Phil Mattingly. "He predicted that Trump would be calm, cool, collected, stay within the normal bounds of things on the witness stand. What do you think? You spent more time with him over a lengthy period of time than anyone"
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"I don't think the same way as Anthony does," said Cohen. "At the beginning, he's going to try. He's going to try very hard to stay within the lane, because he already knows that he's — he and the judge don't clearly see eye-to-eye, so he'll try to stay in the lane, but as the prosecutors continue to drill down on him with information and with allegations that he overinflated his net worth by billions, that's going to irritate him. Because his net worth, his statement of financial condition, it's really a combination of his id, his ego, his superego, all mashed into one narcissistic sociopath."
"You testified in this trial and you said on the stand he — being Trump — would look at the total assets and he would say, quote, 'I'm actually not worth $4.5 billion, I'm really worth more like 6,'" noted Mattingly. "And then you went on to testify that Allen Weisselberg, the former CFO of the Trump Organization, would reverse-engineer the properties to make that math check out. Did Trump know how that all worked?"
"Of course," replied Cohen. "What we would do is we would take in a document from the year earlier and give it to Donald and he would make that mob-style statement, I'm not worth 4.5, I'm worth 5 or 7 or 8, you and Allen go back to Allen's office and figure it out. That's the way he would speak. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what he wants, but being with him for over a decade or Allen Weisselberg for over four decades, we knew exactly what he wanted, we accomplished that task, and returned to his office in order to provide him back with the document for his sign-off."
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