WRT Wehle's article:

There is no way that anyone but Trump (on the defense side) wants Trump to testify at his current trial. I am sure that the prosecution would LOVE to have Trump testify. He will make their case for them, if they give him a chance, because he is actually THAT stupid.

People like to paint Trump as some sort of brilliant player of the legal system.. and he may actually have been one at one time (though I give credit to his lawyers more than him, TBH). But he isn't any more. He is far too concerned with and busy with playing to the political rather than the legal aspects of all of this... and satiating his narcissism (which isn't actually possible). It is more about finding lawyers who are willing to do stupid things and make inane/farcicial arguments and embarass themselves in public, than anything else.

At the least, I expect him to be found guilty of the lesser charge of falsifying business records. Not sure if they will manage to get him for the felony.

And I fully expect that the jury will give far more credence to Cohen's testimony than Trump's defense wants/hopes. I would tend to believe the liar that worked for the bigger liar, myself.

Trump may have actually been smart at one point. But he has decompensated to the point that he no longer is.