Former President Donald Trump’s defense lawyer Todd Blanche is engaging in “meaningless” histrionics with his latest cross-examination of Michael Cohen, argued Pace University law professor and former New York prosecutor Bennett Gershman in conversation with Salon’s Marina Villeneuve. Cohen, Trump’s former attorney and fixer, has been the star witness of the Manhattan criminal hush money trial, and has been subject to several days of intense cross-examination. “The defense is engaged in a theatrical play that has little bearing on the facts,” said Gershman. “The heavy-throttled attack by the d…