Cohen was already a perjurer, fraudster and tax cheat -- now he's...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Cohen is a convicted perjurer, fraudster and tax-cheat.
57% : In fact, he pocketed more than $30,000 -- remember, the Trump Organization doubled the Red Finch payment to protect Cohen from tax liability.
47% : He claimed that he had alerted Trump about the completion of the Stormy Daniels non-disclosure agreement in a brief October 2016 phone call.
33% : Instead, prosecutors say that Cohen was principally paid to reimburse him for $130,000 he'd laid out in October 2016 to purchase the silence of a porn star, Stormy Daniels, who had threatened to go public about a tryst she says she had with Trump a decade earlier.
30% : It strains credulity to suggest, as Cohen did, that maybe he spoke about both the 14-year-old and the Stormy deal in a 90-second phone call -- one in which there is no evidence, other than Cohen's say-so, that he spoke with Trump.
22% : As the three grueling days played out, it became increasingly obvious why federal prosecutors elected not to bring a case against Trump based on Cohen's story.
13% : The revelation that Cohen stole from Trump in a deal over which Bragg has indicted Trump -- but never charged Cohen -- was yet another major wound for the credibility of the star witness.

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