CERL’s Professor Claire Finkelstein discusses the credibility of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, and how his testimony against the previous president corroborates Trump’s knowledge of and engagement in business record falsification and illicit payoffs. In response, the Trump team’s cross-examination will likely hammer in on Cohen’s previous false testimony before Congress, and the veracity of his admitted recording, according to Finkelstein: “I think Trump will have a very hard time getting around the fact that it’s his voice on the recording, acknowledging and showing awareness of this entire scheme.”

Claire Finkelstein is the Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law. Read her bio here.   

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