When the Trump trial resumed on April 30, the prosecution's main witness after Pecker was his negotiation partner Keith Davidson.
He described himself a lawyer with media clients, and said these include reality TV clients. And porn stars?
In reading for the jury his text messages with Pecker's editor Dylan Howard, Davidson came across his line about Karen McDougal being under pressure from what Davidson called the "estrogen mafia."
This turned off many of the prosecution's fans online - and perhaps some of the jurors.
Could it be even more so with Michael Cohen? And how would Team Trump cross-examine Davidson?
Todd Blanche's attempted cross examination of banker Farro led nowhere, but one wondered why it was Flagstar Bank, his current employer, who was paying for his lawyer for testimony on what he did and didn't do while at First Republic, given to Chase. It was reported as if a scoop that the Trump lawyers would be crossing more aggressively. But of course, after kids gloves with Trump's assistant Rhona Graff. The transcript of Friday included Trump asking "Are you alright?" with no answer. There would be answers.