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In dinging Cohen for stealing, Trump’s lawyers undercut their own premise

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For the second consecutive day in court, former president Donald Trump’s lawyers produced what they may have thought was a “gotcha” moment in Trump’s Manhattan trial because it undercut former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s credibility.

But the impact and circumstances surrounding the first moment — Cohen’s supposedly lying about an Oct. 24, 2016, phone call with Trump — remain murky.

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