NEW YORK – A New York defense lawyer wasted no time in trying to use President Donald Trump’s argument that cooperators, or flippers, in criminal cases “almost ought to be illegal.” Kafahni Nkrumah didn’t get very far in his closing argument Thursday when he tried to bring up Trump’s statement to disparage a cooperator who was testifying against his client in a drug case. A judge disallowed it, calling the attempt “out of line.” “I am not going to permit you to argue here regarding statements made by the president of the United States in a case that has nothing to do with this one,” U.S. District Judge Gregory H. Woods said in a conversation with lawyers outside earshot of the jury. Trump’s remark aired earlier the same day during a “Fox & Friends” interview in which he suggested it should be illegal for people facing prosecution to cooperate with the government in exchange for a reduced sentence.
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