Donald Trump finally had a good day in court. The presumptive GOP nominee has often seemed embarrassed and infuriated by his first criminal trial, which has featured salacious exposés of his personal life and details of his alleged attempts to cover it up. But on Thursday, he got to savor his former fixer-turned-enemy Michael Cohen […]
NEW YORK — By this time next week, Donald Trump could be a convicted felon — or a newly acquitted man declaring complete and total exoneration. His Manhattan trial on charges for concealing a 2016 hush money scheme is suddenly hurtling toward a conclusion, with Justice Juan Merchan encouraging attorneys to prepare for closing arguments […]
By Jody Godoy, Jack Queen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s lawyers resumed their cross-examination of the Republican presidential candidate’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen on Thursday, aiming to undermine his testimony that Trump was intimately involved in buying a porn star’s silence over an alleged sexual encounter. Cohen, 57, who served as Trump’s personal […]
Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to resume Thursday in Manhattan criminal court, where Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and so-called fixer, is expected to be back on the witness stand to give more testimony about his role in facilitating the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal the sexual affair […]
Michael Cohen will be back on the witness stand in Manhattan criminal court Thursday to resume facing off against Donald Trump‘s defense attorney as the historic criminal case against the former president nears an end. Prosecutors told Judge Juan Merchan this week that Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer, is their final witness in the often-sensational […]
NEW YORK (AP) — With prosecutors’ hush money case against Donald Trump barreling toward its end, their star witness will be back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers try to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president. The trial, now in its fourth week of testimony, will resume in […]
NEW YORK — Donald Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. The former president’s lawyers filed a […]
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding documents from the New York attorney general related to the hiring of a lead prosecutor in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. Jordan, R-Ohio, accused Matthew Colangelo, who is a former high-ranking official in Attorney General Letitia James’ office, of assisting in what he called Manhattan District Attorney […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is seeking to have New York’s highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial. The former president’s lawyers filed […]
Cohen testified that former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg said “let’s do it” when he asked about getting reimbursed for the $130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels after the new year, according to CNN. Cohen confirmed that he provided the First Republic Bank statement that Weisselberg requested, showing the $130,000 transfer. The jury was shown a […]
Defense attorney Todd Blanche grew annoyed and raised his voice as he tried to press Michael Cohen into calling himself a liar and the former fixer to Donald Trump tried to skirt the question — it wasn’t quite the fireworks many had anticipated for the Tuesday cross-examination, but it did illustrate the tense questioning. Cohen […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump‘s attorneys started grilling prosecutors’ star witness in his hush money trial Tuesday, portraying former attorney Michael Cohen as a media-obsessed liar who’s determined to see the former president behind bars. Cohen endured intense questioning by defense attorney Todd Blanche after providing pivotal testimony tying the presumptive Republican presidential nominee […]