Here’s the thing about Donald Trump’s criminal trial today
Donald Trump’s criminal trial resumes today, after a day off yesterday because Judge Merchan has other duties on Wednesdays. We’re now five full days into the trial (more than that if you count jury selection days), and one thing in particular is really starting to stand out.
The prosecution is now on its fifth witness. The case against Trump is already comprehensive, deeply detailed, one might even say massive. You could send this case to the jury right now and likely get a guilty verdict. The trial is already over in that sense. And yet we still haven’t gotten to any of the witnesses that are expected to headline this trial.
Michael Cohen? Stormy Daniels? Karen McDougal? Hope Hicks? None of them have taken the stand yet. That’s all still yet to come. And while their testimony may indeed end up being explosive, we’re already seeing lower profile witnesses corroborating much of their upcoming testimony in advance.
In other words, this trial is very much not going to come down to whether the jury believes Cohen, or any other single witness. By the time the highest profile witnesses take the stand in this trial, they won’t be attempting to build a case against Trump. They’ll be adding the crucial finishing touches to a case that’ll already have been built.
