Michael Cohen is due to CONTINUE a multi-day testimony to the Congress today. The opportunity to lie is not available to Mr. Cohen. There is no way a week of intense testimony will hold up to lies. There are too many people asking the questions and the opportunity to trip up and have conflicting answers is not likely. I think Michael Cohen feels good about what he is doing and he needs to continue down that path.
The Special Council has decades of time and experience in dealing with liars. Michael Cohen has a future. He will satisfy his debt to the country in jail, but, when he is released the future will include his ability to market his education in a way that will bring interest to him. There are many, many reasons for him to purge his past and reach for a better future. I hope the truth will heal his life and he will succeed in a meaningful way in the future. I wish him well.
"This is a time where Mr. Cohen (click here) had to put his family and their safety first," Cohen's attorney, Lanny Davis, said.
The biggest mistake Guiliani and Trump made was to threaten Michael Cohen and his family. We see this sometimes, don't we? There are many criminals in today's society that like to hang out in groups and bring about fear in communities to ensure they remain silent. The inner cities are fighting back these dynamics all the time. Witnesses become emotionally paralyzed in the face of the reality of threats over that of the truth and justice. Well, here we go again. Falling back into old patterns is not the future and the American people are fighting for the truth and justice not maintaining the lies of the past.
February 26, 2019
By David French
...1. Corroboration is key. (click here) This is the most obvious point. As Cohen testifies, his credibility increases when he can support his story with documents, with recordings, or even with other witnesses. If anyone else is willing to testify under oath in the same way to the same events, then Cohen’s words take on new importance. His narrative is only as compelling as his corroboration.
2. Don’t believe your own discernment. The absolute worst thing anyone can do when confronting a witness is to believe they have some sort of special insight into who is truly “sincere” or “credible.” A man who has lied for a long time tends to be very good at lying, and the obvious giveaways or “tells” are more often the stuff of movies than real life. I’ve sat in depositions and watched a witness give a performance fit for awards season — only to see them reverse course quickly (and, again, convincingly) after being confronted with clearly contradictory documentary evidence....
