{"id":2248878,"date":"2024-05-20T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-analyst-says-michael-cohen-admitted-to-more-serious-crime-than-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-20T16:27:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T20:27:42","slug":"cnn-analyst-says-michael-cohen-admitted-to-more-serious-crime-than-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-analyst-says-michael-cohen-admitted-to-more-serious-crime-than-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Analyst: Michael Cohen Confesses to &#8216;Graver&#8217; Offense Than Trump Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-analyst-says-michael-cohen-admitted-to-more-serious-crime-than-what-trump-is-accused-of-doing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Michael Cohen, in \u200bthe midst of\u200b Donald \u2063Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-judge-sets-date-for-trumps-first-criminal-trial\/\" title=\"Trump's initial criminal trial date fixed by New York judge\">hush-money trial<\/a> in NYC, admitted \u2062to a graver\u2064 offense \u2062than Trump. CNN&#8217;s\u200d Elie Honig highlighted Cohen&#8217;s confession of stealing $60,000 from the Trump \u2062Organization by not reimbursing\u2064 an IT firm hired to manipulate polls. Honig critiqued the trial, comparing it to &#8220;Seinfeld&#8217;s&#8221; &#8216;Yada yada yada.&#8217; Cohen, despite multiple crimes, never pleaded guilty to \u2063larceny.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/michael-cohen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael Cohen<\/a> admitted to committing a \u201cmore serious crime\u201d while on the stand at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s hush-money trial in New York City than what the former president is accused of doing, according to CNN legal analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnns-honig-on-fani-willis-screwups-that-led-to-judge-kicking-some-charges-embarrassing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elie Honig<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While being grilled by defense attorney Todd Blanche on Monday, Cohen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/michael-cohen-admits-to-stealing-while-on-stand-at-trumps-nyc-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged that he stole<\/a> as much as $60,000 from the Trump Organization in 2017 by not reimbursing an IT firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/poll-rigging-for-trump-and-creating-womenforcohen-one-it-firms-work-order-11547722801\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> to rig polls. Cohen, who has done prison time for multiple crimes, also conceded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-hush-money-trial-05-20-24\/h_b774e3c7dd88fbaa5a8ad4dc5ec856d3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never pleading guilty<\/a> to larceny.<\/p>\n<p>Critiquing what had just transpired in the Manhattan courtroom during a panel on CNN, Honig made reference to the popular \u201cSeinfeld\u201d sitcom, saying, \u201cThe way this was raised and addressed on direct is what Julia Louis-Dreyfus would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3CKyWu87W78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call<\/a> \u2018Yada yada yada,&#8217;\u201d as shown in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/cnns-elie-honig-says-michael-cohen-stealing-from-trump-is-more-serious-of-a-crime-than-falsifying-business-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clip published by Mediaite.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cHere\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/billionaire-bill-ackman-calls-kyle-rittenhouse-a-civic-minded-patriot\/\" title=\"Billionaire Bill Ackman Calls Kyle Rittenhouse a 'Civic-Minded Patriot'\">direct testimony<\/a> the way Michael Cohen explained what happened \u2026 Michael Cohen explained this whole thing, quote \u2018That\u2019s what was owed and I didn\u2019t feel Mr. Trump deserved the difference.\u2019 That\u2019s a lot different than, \u2018I stole $60,000 from my boss on the transaction at the heart of this case.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cohen never getting charged with larceny \u201cis important because stealing $60,000 through fraud, which would be larceny in New York State, is more serious of a crime than falsifying business records,\u201d Honig said.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-trial-hush-money-michael-cohen-ec08be1219703deb3cd10604844deacb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected<\/a> to rest his case after Cohen, who worked as a lawyer and fixer for Trump, finishes giving testimony focused on his role in facilitating payments to women who allegedly had affairs with the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who denies the claims, faces 34 felony <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-indicted-on-34-felony-counts-of-conspiracy-falsifying-business-records-pleads-not-guilty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">counts<\/a> of falsifying business records to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-cohen-admits-to-stealing-while-on-stand-at-trumps-nyc-trial\/\" title=\"Michael Cohen confesses to theft during Trump's NYC trial\">allegedly conceal damaging information<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanda.org\/district-attorney-bragg-announces-34-count-felony-indictment-of-former-president-donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cover up<\/a> the payments as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election. He has pleaded not guilty and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-blasts-hush-money-case-ahead-of-jury-selection-attack-on-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> what he says is a \u201cpolitical persecution\u201d while he runs another campaign for the White House in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>Honig <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stormy-daniels-gave-disastrous-testimony-in-trump-trial-cnn-legal-analyst-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously said<\/a> adult film actress Stormy Daniels, one of the women who allegedly had a tryst with Trump, gave \u201cdisastrous\u201d responses when she answered questions while on the stand during cross-examination earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s hush-money trial in New York City, Michael Cohen admitted to a &#8220;more serious crime&#8221; than the accusations against the former president. CNN legal analyst Elie Honig disclosed this during Cohen&#8217;s testimony. Cohen acknowledged the offense under cross-examination by defense attorney Todd Blanche, revealing the gravity of the situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2248879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2152348561-scaled-e1716229435409.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2152348561-scaled-e1716229435409.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}