Did a 14-year-old prank caller just blow up Michael Cohen’s testimony in Trump’s hush money trial?

Michael Cohen was bombarded with prank calls in October 2016, the same month he was urgently arranging a deal to buy Stormy Daniels’ silence.

On October 24, 2016, the prank caller forgot to hide their number, and Cohen sent them a message: “This number has just been sent to Secret Service for your ongoing and continuous harassment to both my cell as well as the organization’s main line.”

“I DIDNT DO IT,” the prankster replied.

“Im 14,” another text read. “Please don’t do this.”

That night, Donald Trump’s fixer called his boss’s bodyguard, and then texted him the alleged 14-year-old prankster’s phone number to deal with it.

That moment, drawn out by defense attorneys in a Manhattan courtroom during Cohen’s testimony in the former president’s hush money trial on Thursday, intended to undercut Cohen’s prior testimony about the call to Mr Trump’s body man, Keith Schiller.

According to Cohen’s testimony earlier this week, it was on that call that Cohen told Mr Trump that he secured the hush money deal to bury Ms Daniels’ story about having sex with Mr Trump in 2006.

Throughout the trial, Mr Trump’s defense attorneys have repeatedly tried to plant seeds of doubt in the jury’s minds with their often-vitriolic and skeptical cross examinations of the prosecution’s chief witnesses.

Cohen is the only witness who can directly link Mr Trump to a scheme to buy Ms Daniels’ silence, as well as Mr Trump’s approval of the plan to reimburse Cohen $130,000 after he paid her.

Cohen’s invoices for those repayments and the checks that Mr Trump signed are among the 34 allegedly falsified business records at the center of the case.

Mr Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records, in a case that prosecutors have framed as his