Here's some of what we knew about Michael Cohen before Thursday's cross-examination: He used to work for Donald Trump, he's been caught lying, repeatedly, and he paid $130,000 to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election, back when he was still working for the former president.
Trump attorney Todd Blanche spent his first couple hours with Cohen establishing that he now hates his old boss. Blanche would read a mean and usually profane post on social media and Cohen would respond that yeah, it "sounds like" something he would have said. It was, by most observers' accounts, a dubious approach that didn't even touch the specific claims Cohen made on the stand that are relevant to the case: that he made that six-figure payment on Trump's behalf, with Trump's knowledge and with the understanding that he would be paid back in such a way that the hush money would not have to be disclosed on a campaign finance report.
