Ex-prosecutor highlights Trump's odd reaction to witness hanging him out to dry
Donald Trump has spent the past several years lashing out at his former lawyer. Michael Cohen went to prison after pleading guilty to crimes surrounding the hush money scheme that Trump now faces in court.
The first two days of the trial, former AMI chief David Pecker revealed details about the so-called "catch and kill" operations that he and Trump cooked up as early as the fall of 2015 to help aid him in the run for president. Pecker's details confirmed that the actions taken were about the election and not hiding the affairs from his wife.
Pecker also verified that the two people with stories, the Trump Tower doorman and Karen McDougal, were released from their contract less than a month after the election.
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The two men have had a long relationship dating back to "The Apprentice," when Trump would leak details to him. Yet, despite having more damaging information, Trump continues to attack Cohen over Pecker. It's a detail that former FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann found puzzling.
There's also the matter of Hope Hicks, Trump's former communications director he brought onto his campaign from his daughters' company. Hicks broke with Trump over the Jan. 6 attack but has remained publicly silent about what she knows in this case and others.
"You can't fathom him attacking her," MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said to Weissmann. "He had other women dye their hair to look like her!"
"It's fascinating, the non-attack of David Pecker and Hope Hicks," Weissmann agreed. "There's various schools of thought. One is that there's more they know. You poke the bear, it could get worse."
His implication is that Hicks and Pecker are both aware of a lot of dirt on Trump that they could expose him if he decides to go on the attack against them.
Weissmann also explained that because Trump's team has all of the interviews with the federal investigators and the Manhattan D.A., they know what will be said in the trial.
"Then there are witnesses like Hope Hicks, where you think — we think we know the whole story," Weissmann said. "That is somebody, like David Pecker, we had a sense of it with Hope Hicks. It's maybe even more Sphinx-like. Where she really can shore up things."
"You know who knows about this? Donald Trump," he continued. "They have all the testimony. They have everything that she's going to say. They know. They have a good sense of what's coming. That's what they will be thinking about. When do you use those key pieces? What do you need to shore up when?"
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