It’s not pivotal that if the Donald is convicted Michael Cohen can sell his ‘Trump in jail’ T-shirts – but it’s not nothing | Emma Brockes

It has been fun watching the former president's disreputable former lawyer coolly damn his one-time mentor in court

There's no justifying it, but I have a sneaky soft spot for Michael Cohen, the former lawyer, fixer and - as Fox News is keen to remind us - ex-con" testifying against Donald Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush-money trial. Coming hard on the heels of Daniels' explosive appearance last week, Cohen's testimony could have been anticlimactic. Not so!

The 57-year-old, navigating a tricky line between languid, affable and sheepish, met tough questioning by Trump's lawyers with the calmness of a man with nothing to lose and a lot of unfinished business to get through. Cohen, you'll remember, literally did time for those hush-money payments (among other things), so it's fair to say he might have a few scores to settle.

Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist