Michael Cohen’s insults to Donald Trump come after days of grueling testimony – from ‘caged animal’ to ‘idiot’

DONALD Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen took the stand on Tuesday for the second time as he was questioned about the insults he hurled at his former boss on social media.

The dismissed lawyer is the key witness in the from Trump silent trial and had to confirm much of the colorful language he used to describe the former president.

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Cohen, 57, was questioned by prosecutors for several hours on Monday about his time at the Trump Organization and his role as Trump’s lawyer.

On Tuesday, he was turned over for questioning and cross-examined by Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, who tried to paint Cohen as an untrustworthy and revenge-hungry witness.

Blanche quickly probed Cohen about the jabs he took at Trump, 77, on X, formerly Twitter, to which Cohen responded with short, blunt responses.

“On April 15, after the trial began, you referred to President Trump as an idiot dictator, didn’t you?” Blanche asked.

“It sounds like something I said,” Cohen responded.

Blanche then asked Cohen if he ever stated that he wanted to see Trump in a cage, “like a damn animal.”

Cohen responded, “I remember saying that.”

He confirmed another insult, this time on his podcast, Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen, which has more than 100 episodes.

In one episode, Cohen referred to Trump as a “Cheeto-covered cartoon villain.”

A quick search of Cohen’s X account turns up more insults he’s made about Trump, like a tweet calling him a “wannabe monarch” and a “clown”.

“In my decade of working for this animal, I’m sure I’ve never seen #Trump lie with so much impunity,” he said. to read another tweet.

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But Trump wasn’t the only target of Cohen’s ire on social media.

Blanche asked him to confirm the insults Cohen made at her expense.

“Do you remember going on TikTok and calling me a crybaby?” Blanche asked.

Before Cohen could respond, the prosecution objected and Judge Juan Merchan ordered the lawyer to approach the courtroom for a sidebar.

After the discussion, Blanche rephrased her question, asking Cohen if he had recently described him as a “whiny piece of shit.”

“Sounds like something I would say,” Cohen responded before the prosecution objected again.

“Your Honor, to rephrase it another way, I called you a whining piece of shit,” Cohen said.

Blanche also pressured Cohen into several TV interviews in which he also spoke negatively about Trump, despite the district attorney’s office trying to stop him as the case was still being investigated.

When asked if he remembered promising to stop appearing on TV, Cohen said no.

“I don’t remember ever agreeing not to appear on television,” he said, adding that he remembered the prosecutor asking him to “please” stop talking at some point.

Cohen worked as Trump’s lawyer from 2006 to 2018 and also served as executive vice president of the Trump Organization.

For many years, he was a staunch supporter of Trump, often working behind the scenes for the Trump family, and even said he would “take a shot” for the former president.

When asked by Blanche if he was “obsessed” with Trump, Cohen said he “admired him tremendously.”

“At that time, I was deeply involved in the cult of Donald Trump,” Cohen said.

Stormy negotiations

Cohen testified that Trump directed him to pay adult film actress Stormy Daniels after she went public with an affair she allegedly had with the billionaire in 2006.

Daniels received $130,000, which Cohen took out of his own pocket, believing he would be repaid.

He testified that the Trump Organization’s then-chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, told him, “I’m going to make sure you get paid back.”

“I was doing everything I could and more to protect my boss, something I had been doing for a long time,” Cohen said.

When he told Trump about the payment, Cohen testified that the former president was happy with the decision, telling him, “well done.”

Cohen was arrested for arranging the payment to Daniels and lying to Congress in 2016 following an investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the presidential election.

In a statementCohen admitted to violating campaign finance laws “with the primary purpose of influencing” the election at Trump’s behest.

He pleaded guilty to a series of charges, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution and violating the Federal Election Campaign Act in 2018.

Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records related to the secret payment Cohen made to Daniels.

He pleaded not guilty and said multiple times that he and Daniels never had sex.

If convicted, he could face up to four years in prison.