I’m trying to read “How Michael Cohen’s Big Mouth Could Be Derailing the Trump Prosecution” (NY Magazine).
Key witness Michael Cohen and his pathological need for media attention have not been making things easier…. He clearly thinks very highly of himself and seems to have little awareness of his limitations…. He appears constitutionally incapable of telling the same story twice in the same way…. He is also obsessed with taking down his former boss Trump… [H]e could be confronted with inconsistent or problematic past statements….
“One of the things that I think will come out of this investigation,” Cohen [said in a TV interview], “other than the potential indictment of Donald Trump, is a lot of information about how the Southern District of New York dealt with me in my specific case…. [My lawyer] has so much information about the weaponization of the Justice Department against me….”…
Either he committed the offenses at issue and has accepted responsibility for them, a fundamental prerequisite for a crucial cooperating witness, or he was unfairly railroaded and forced to plead guilty despite being innocent of some or all charges….