The thing that stood out most to me was
when Cullen recalled Trump's response to learning the story We
did and also shopping around her story,
he said,
well, first he got mad and told Cohen,
I thought you had this under control.
But then he goes, according to Cohen's testimony,
this is a disaster, a total disaster.
Women are going to hate me.
Guys may think it's cool,
but this is a disaster for the campaign.
And Cohen said that his take away was that
Trump was really just focused on the impact that this
could potentially have on his campaign rather than on his
wife or his kids.
We didn't do a thing wrong.
I'm a very innocent man
and it's OK. I'm fighting for our country.
I'm fighting for our Constitution.
Our whole country is being rigged right now.
Mother Teresa could not beat these charges.
These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged
because that's what the, the defense is going to
try and argue that he,
Michael Cohen, you know, maybe he,
the defense is going to try and argue that like
Michael Cohen went rogue,
essentially, and that Trump is not at fault for anything
illegal that might have happened.
But when he was on the stand,
Cohen was very, very clear that he was working
at the direction of Donald Trump.
Trump
actively appeared to be avoiding looking at Michael Cohen throughout
it,
throughout his testimony. He had his eyes closed for a
lot of it.
So Trump has been found in contempt 10 times and
paid
$10,000 in total. And the judge told him
if this happens again, I'm going to have to consider
putting you in jail because he said although that would
be extremely disruptive to the trial,
he said that he would be concerned about the court
officers that would be tasked with putting Trump in jail.
And for their safety. The judge said he also had
a responsibility to the to the judicial process,
to the integrity of the court system.
And so if Trump continues to attack witnesses,
for example, Judge Marshawn said he might have to be
put in jail in order to protect the integrity of
this criminal trial.