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One thing's for certain: Blanche thought the point was so important that he waited just before the lunch recess to make it, angrily, with indignant accusations and statements — that a seasoned lawyer like him must have known would draw the sustained objections that they did.

NEW: On cross examination, Michael Cohen is asked whether he was telling the truth when, on various occasions, he heaped praise on Trump publicly. His response? “At that time, I was knee deep into the cult of Donald Trump, yes.”

199/ I do not know why media has not covered *this* part of the trial properly—though I can guess. America is still a somewhat Puritan country, and just as media was scared of the Steele dossier and would not work with Daniels pre-election in 2016, all this stuff makes it queasy.

What Merchan found extraneous is exactly what I found relevant (and riveting); those small details are the kind that make a story credible and compelling and would have stuck in voters’ heads had Cohen not rushed to pay for Stormy’s silence in late October 2016.