'Stupid' Eric Trump buried by Michael ​Cohen for walking into obvious trap at fraud trial

Exclaiming, "How stupid do they have to be?' former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen ripped into Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. for their testimony in the $250 million financial fraud trial being held in Manhattan, claiming Donald Trump's sons did more damage than help to the family's future.

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi, the former Trump fixer who also testified in the same trial against the Trump Organization, singled out one exchange between Eric Trump and a prosecutor that was an obvious trap — and the former president's son blithely walked right into it.

Focusing on Eric Trump's repeated insistence he paid little to no attention to financial statements prepared by the Trump Organization where he is a senior executive, prosecutor Andrew Amer then produced internal emails that showed he was kept in the loop with fellow executives.

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That moment, Cohen claimed, was a major turning point in the trial as Judge Arthur Engoron ponders Eric Trump's credibility before making a determination on the financial penalty that could bring the company down and send it into receivership.

"You know, Don Junior and Eric lied under oath," Cohen told the MSNBC host. "In fact, all they are doing is emulating their father who was put on the stand by Judge Engoron in regard to statements that he made outside the courtroom about the judge's law clerk, claiming it was me."

"I mean, the guy lies the way that you breathe, and the kids are doing the same thing — how stupid do they have to be?" he exclaimed. "It is sad to stay, how stupid do you have to be when you are Eric Trump, for example, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, and you claim all you really do is, you know, you pour concrete?"

"Let me be very clear: Eric has never poured concrete in this life. He wouldn't know how to pour quicksand by adding water to it," he continued. "And Don Jr. claims that he was just a broker. They were not just brokers, Eric did not pour concrete. They were in charge of running the company while their father was president, under the control of Allen Weisselberg, who is the trustee plain and simple."

"And the emails! Did they not think that the government had the emails? Did they not think they were going to show it to them? They think this is some sort of a joke?" he added.

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