Here Are The Important Things That Happened During Today's Michael Cohen's Trump Trial Testimony

Out of all of the things that Michael Cohen revealed during his testimony, one in particular may come back to haunt Donald Trump in November.

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Hey everybody, Sarah Jones here with PoliticusUSA’s The Daily for our subscribers. I wanted to check in with you about the trial today, I think a few important things happened today in terms of Donald Trump and the prosecution making their argument.

Michael Cohen's testimony was actually very powerful. I think a lot of people were concerned that it wouldn't be. And he had to overcome his reputation already that precedes him, as really argumentative and somebody who doesn't always tell the truth. So he did seem to do that today and actually managed to testify by all reports in a very calm, measured manner and very respectful. 

So that was a good thing for the prosecution. 

One thing we heard about today that really stood out for me, and I've just finished talking about this on Brad Bannon’s show Deadline: DC, is that we heard Michael Cohen say that Donald Trump was treating his wife, Melania, basically, like she was disposable. 

He said that first of all, it was Melania Trump's idea to present the Access Hollywood tape as “locker room talk.”  And then right after that, Cohen says Trump said he needed to delay payments to Stormy Daniels until after the election because the story wouldn't be relevant if he won, and if he lost, “I really don't care.”

He said he didn't care about Melania and that even if she left him, basically, he would not be on the market for very long. 

Now, the reason I'm highlighting this for you guys, is that that is a really ugly thing for a political candidate to say about their wife.  And who does Trump need to win back? He needs to win back those suburban women who vote Republican, some of whom peeled off because of the abortion issue. And he's been he's been losing them ever since that. 

So he cannot afford to lose Independent women and he cannot afford to lose those suburban Republican women. And I think that as horrible as this is to think about -- because to me, Donald Trump has already shown us who he is, and it's not a great record as far as women are concerned there should be no questions: He's an adjudicated rapist-- However, many of his supporters have managed to ignore all of that. But I think that knowing the way that mindset works, where it's very patriarchal and the women who buy into that know that they're at risk all the time. 

Are they going like hearing from a political candidate that they're garbage that can just be thrown away and replaced with somebody else? I don't think that's a great message and I think that if that message gets out more, that's going to be potentially very damaging for him.