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Key point - it will come down the corroborating evidence, which there is quite a bit of

This is very good for Trump.
Key parts of Cohen's testimony are not corroborated by any other evidence.
The most important part is Cohen's testimony that Trump told him to fix it and knew about it all the time.

On the contrary, there was a boatload of corroborating evidence.  This is wishcasting.

What is the corroborating evidence that Trump knew about the meeting between Cohen and Weisselberg?

They need corroborating evidence tending to connect the defendant to the charged crime, not of each & every individual aspect of an accomplice's testimony.

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza. Biden only gave him 99% of what he wanted, and that's not enough for the most pampered, entitled country on the planet.

The fact that supposed moderates like Gantz still haven't pulled their war cabinet support to stop this madness reflects awfully on their character too. This is a very sick society.

Leftists are completely delusional about what Palestinian culture is. They think this is some indigenous, peaceful tribe like Mayan civilization in 3000 BC (of course they are wrong about this too) when you listen to some of their language. Unfortunately, reality on the ground suggests if given the capacity they would kill every Jewish person they could.

I'm sure bombing refugee camps will totally change their culture.

Both Gantz and Galland gave a three week deadline that hasn’t passed yet

Not holding my breath.

What is your solution to the conflict then? Eliminate Israel's Jewish majority?

Yeah.

End of minority rule (apartheid).

The online right wing is erupting over a contention that the jury doesn't have to be unanimous to find Trump guilty, following a misleading tweet from Fox's John Roberts to that effect.  He later corrected it to confirm that they do have to be unanimous that Trump committed the crime of falsifying business records, but they don't have to be unanimous about which underlying crime it was in support of (which is what elevates it to a felony).  But it's too late, the damage is done.

Obama is X’er

Gen X doesn't start until 1964 by all qualified definition. He is either a late stage Boomer, or if you agree with the idea of Generation Jones (1954-1964), a Joneser

It's a little known fact that people are actually born continously, so the idea of discrete "generations" is a bit hooky.

Obama occupies a unique generational setting among U.S. presidents in that all the other ones, in the past three decades, have been born in a 4-year period corresponding to the very beginning of the "baby boom" era.  Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden (along with nominees Gore, Kerry, Romney and Hillary) share the generational experience of '50s childhood with Vietnam-era coming of age.  It suggests there's something still relevant or long-lived about this era for our contemporary politics.

Obama was 8 when we landed on the Moon, 13 when Nixon resigned, and 14 when Vietnam fell. Old enough to remember seeing all three events live on TV. Whereas someone born in 1964 or after would be unlikely to remember either, especially the moon landing. He might not have been draft age, but the Vietnam War existing would still be within his generational memory. That he was cognizant enough to have even a dim memory of all three transformative events in our society says he is in the same long generation as the Boomers, to me, just of a lesser tier.

Being six (and living in Indonesia!) during the Summer of Love is a very different generational experience than being college-aged/mid-20s at the same time.  That Clinton, Dubya, Trump and Biden all share the later experience is significant.

Key point - it will come down the corroborating evidence, which there is quite a bit of

This is very good for Trump.
Key parts of Cohen's testimony are not corroborated by any other evidence.
The most important part is Cohen's testimony that Trump told him to fix it and knew about it all the time.

On the contrary, there was a boatload of corroborating evidence.  This is wishcasting.

What is the corroborating evidence that Trump knew about the meeting between Cohen and Weisselberg?

The second Trump wins the election (if he wins, which looks increasingly likely) Netanyahu will withdraw all troops from Gaza.

Or Hamas will release all the hostages, knowing Netanyahu will be truly unleashed once Trump takes office. That's basically what happened in 1980 with the hostages in Iran.

Not happening

[Israel says Gaza war likely to last another seven months as tanks probe Rafah]

Israel says Gaza war likely to last another seven months as tanks probe Rafah

CAIRO, May 29 (Reuters) - Israel sent tanks on raids into Rafah on Wednesday and said its war on Hamas in Gaza would likely continue all year, after Washington said the Rafah assault did not amount to a major ground operation that would trigger a change in U.S. policy.
Israeli tanks moved into the heart of Rafah for the first time on Tuesday, despite an order from the International Court of Justice to end its attacks on the city, where many Palestinians had taken refuge from widespread bombardment.
Rafah residents said the tanks had pushed into Tel Al-Sultan in western Rafah and Yibna and near Shaboura in the centre before retreating towards a buffer zone on the border with Egypt, rather than staying put as elsewhere.
"We received distress calls from residents in Tel Al-Sultan where drones targeted displaced citizens as they moved from areas where they were staying toward the safe areas," the deputy director of ambulance and emergency services in Rafah, Haitham al Hams, said

[…]

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sends-tanks-into-rafah-raids-amid-gaza-wide-offensive-2024-05-29/

In other words, post-American election.

If Biden was smart, he would have started withholding weapons in Jan/Fab when it was obvious that Israel wasn’t going to stop.

Sure, he would get some blowback from AIPAC-back politicians, but that would be largely dissipated by Election Day.

Now, he’s probably doom.

Key point - it will come down the corroborating evidence, which there is quite a bit of

This is very good for Trump.
Key parts of Cohen's testimony are not corroborated by any other evidence.
The most important part is Cohen's testimony that Trump told him to fix it and knew about it all the time.

On the contrary, there was a boatload of corroborating evidence.  This is wishcasting.

Really good end of closing calling Michael Cohen the GLOAT.
That one is going to stick in the minds of the jurors, and they aren't going to be able to shake it off.

Another good thing, sneaking in the "sending Trump to prison" reference.

The latter is unquestionably NOT a good thing, considering Merchan will issue a curative instruction.

Really, the defense could've had a much better closing statement. I'm not a lawyer, and even I can see where they missed opportunities.

Curative instructions don't matter.
The important thing was to impress upon the jurors that a guilty verdict = Trump in jail.

The impression, to be corrected, that a guilty verdict automatically equals jail is more important than another clear statement from the judge that the defense is acting out of order and unreasonably?

Yes.

This was done on purpose.

Well, at least you're finally outright admitting to being an unreserved partisan hack who cares nothing whatsoever for the rule of law. Fully expected with your posting history in this thread, but nice to have confirmation nonetheless.

Not sure how you managed to infer this from my post.