CNN Anchor Fact-Checks Trump With Ex-Fixer Michael Cohen: ‘You Did Not Recant Your Testimony’

CNN anchor John Berman and former Trump fixer Michael Cohen fact-checked ex-President Donald Trump’s attacks on Cohen during a press conference following his fraud trial.

The trial in the fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James and presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron concluded with closing arguments on Thursday — and lots of unexpected fireworks. Those included a chaotic press conference at which Trump attacked Cohen, among others.

“And by the way, that witness took back everything that he said. He took back everything he said in court, took it all back. So they have no case. It’s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen,” Trump said of Cohen.

On Friday’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman asked Cohen what Trump was talking about when he accused Cohen of recanting on the witness stand:

JOHN BERMAN: Let’s talk about the facts of what he said. You did not recant your testimony on the witness stand. What’s he, what’s he referring to?

MICHAEL COHEN: I have no idea. I mean, that would be something that you would have to ask him. Because only Donald knows what’s going on inside Donald’s head. He makes things up!

One of the things that they jumped out of the courtroom screaming, we won! We won! Is when they asked me a question about specifically, did Donald Trump tell you to inflate the numbers?

And the term specifically is very specific, right? He did not.

But what they decided to do is to ignore how I continued, which was that Donald Trump speaks like a mob boss. And you don’t have to specifically say something, especially when you’re with the guy for over a decade, when you know exactly what he wants you to do, you do exactly what he wants you to do, and he signs off on it. It’s just the distinction between explicit and implicit.

Watch above via CNN News Central.