Donald Trump’s attorney just stepped in it badly while trying to cross examine David Pecker
Former National Enquirer boss David Pecker spent the past few days delivering one body blow after another to Donald Trump, exposing how he and Trump conspired to rig the 2016 election by strategically publishing fake news stories and strategically burying real news stories. By the time Pecker was done testifying on Thursday afternoon, Trump was already toast. Then it became Trump’s defense attorney’s job to try to undo it all – but as everyone knows, there’s no such thing as unmaking toast.
Instead Trump’s attorney made things far worse for his client. The attorney handed Pecker a document that he claimed would refresh Pecker’s memory of a certain meeting. But then it turned out there was nothing in the document that even addressed the meeting.
The judge then informed Trump’s attorney after the fact that he’ll have to inform the jury first thing tomorrow morning that Trump’s attorney blew it. Legal expert Harry Litman says that this is going to further cut into Trump’s legal team’s fading credibility – and he’s right. The jury already saw the judge have to repeatedly set Trump’s attorney straight during his opening statement. Now it’s getting even more ugly for Trump’s legal team. And of course this serves to erode Trump’s own credibility in the eyes of the jury.
