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Michael Cohen endured a new barrage of questioning under cross-examination at former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in Manhattan on Thursday — and Trump defense counsel Todd Blanche manage to land one hit by establishing one of Cohen’s recalled calls to Trump in 2016 wasn’t actually to Trump, and wasn’t necessarily about adult film star Stormy Daniels. But for all of that, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti told MSNBC’s Ari Melber that evening, the defense has actually dropped the ball in a big way, by failing to bring up one of the most important lines of questionin…

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