Legal Analyst Spots ‘Weirdest Moment’ Yet Of Trump Trial
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin on Thursday said the “weirdest moment” in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial was the former president’s legal team’s “brutal” cross-examination of a computer forensics analyst who was ostensibly only in court to authenticate data. In a thread on the X platform, formerly known as Twitter, Rubin acknowledged that “many Trump trial watchers are still knee deep in the world of Keith Davidson, where lurid details about people like Hulk Hogan, Charlie Sheen & Lindsay Lohan are bought and sold like candy.” She noted, “But the weirdest moment for me was the cross of a guy who does cell phone data extraction” for the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. But the weirdest moment for me was the cross of a guy who does cell phone data… — Lisa Rubin May 3, 2024 The Iraq war veteran who took the stand was just there to “authenticate data taken off two cell phones provided to the DA by Michael Cohen” and came across as “knowledgeable, earnest, and honest,” said Rubin. “And here’s where Trump’s lawyer ended for the day: implying that ‘a prior acquisition and extraction could impact the data’ the DA’s office looked at in 2023 when it was provided to them,” Rubin said.