The defence, led by the Trump lawyer Todd Blanche, forced Cohen to concede that he had previously lied to protect Trump because it affected the stakes for him personally, and that he lied to the federal judge when he was prosecuted for tax evasion and false statements.
These admissions could prove a problem for the prosecutors in the Manhattan district attorney's office. They portray Cohen as an unreliable narrator who lied with ease and abandon to achieve whatever aim he was pursuing in that moment.
As Cohen returned to the stand for the third day, Blanche suggested Cohen's latest objective was to see Trump go to jail, seeding the possibility that he might have also lied about the extent of Trump's involvement in the hush-money scheme.
Blanche also directly accused Cohen of lying in his trial testimony. Cohen said earlier in the week that when he called Trump's former bodyguard Keith Schiller in October 2016, it was to apprise Trump that he was moving forward with paying hushmoney to Daniels.
Relying on texts Cohen sent to Schiller complaining about prank calls from a 14-year-old, Blanche told Cohen he must have phoned Schiller primarily about the prank calls and that he could not have had enough time in a 1.5-minute call to tell Trump about the Daniels deal.
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