Michael Cohen is questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger before Judge Juan Merchan as former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Emil Bove look on inside Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters) Since the trial is not being televised and news photographers are only permitted 45 seconds to take still photos prior to the start […]
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Six big moments from Michael Cohen’s Trump trial testimony
By Luc Cohen and Jack Queen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump‘s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified at the former U.S. president’s criminal trial this week, asserting he had Trump’s “signoff” to buy a porn star’s silence and undergoing a cross-examination by Trump’s lawyers. Trump has pleaded not guilty to falsifying business records to cover […]
Michael Cohen faces cross-examination on 2nd day of testimony
Before the midmorning break, Cohen testified about the 2018 FBI raid of his hotel room, apartment and office. Cohen said he was staying at the Loews Regency hotel in Manhattan because his apartment had flooded. “At 7 a.m. in the morning, there’s a knock on the door. I look through the peephole. I saw a […]
Michael Cohen faces cross-examination on second day of testimony
Before the midmorning break, Cohen testified about the 2018 FBI raid of his hotel room, apartment and office. Cohen said he was staying at the Loews Regency hotel in Manhattan because his apartment had flooded. “At 7 a.m. in the morning, there’s a knock on the door. I look through the peephole. I saw a […]
Michael Cohen returns to the stand for second day of testimony in hush money case
Donald Trump’s hush money trial is set to resume Monday 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 testify about his role in facilitating the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal the sexual affair she says […]
The biggest bombshells from Michael Cohen’s testimony were all in Trump’s own words
Michael Cohen gave his long-awaited testimony Monday in Trump’s hush-money trial. Much of his most damning testimony came when he quoted what he described as Trump’s own words. He testified that Trump knew exactly what was going on when Cohen paid hush money to Stormy Daniels. When Michael Cohen was arranging hush-money payments for Stormy […]
Michael Cohen to continue testimony at Trump hush-money trial
Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is set to continue crucial testimony on Tuesday in the former US president’s New York hush-money trial, where Trump faces charges of allegedly falsifying records of payments to a porn actor to cover an affair. Cohen’s testimony is seen as crucial to the prosecution’s arguments that the money […]
Angry Trump blasts judge after Cohen testimony
Former President Trump on Monday laced into the New York judge handling his hush money trial after his former attorney, Michael Cohen, spent hours on the witness stand. Trump was asked as he exited the courtroom why a handful of elected officials joined him at the courthouse, with Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), Sen. Tommy Tuberville […]
With eyes shut, Trump endures testimony from his nemesis
NEW YORK — Face to face in court on Monday with his fixer-turned-nemesis Michael Cohen — the witness whose testimony is key to New York prosecutors’ criminal case against him — Donald Trump seemed determined to project that he was unworried, if not unbothered. After all, he was up in the polls. “The New York […]
What to know about Trump fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen’s pivotal testimony in the hush money trial
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump‘s hush money trial reached a pivotal moment Monday when Trump’s onetime loyal attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, took the witness stand to testify against his former boss. As the prosecution’s case enters its final stretch, Cohen is providing jurors with an insider’s account of hush money payments at the […]
Michael Cohen Exposes Skeezy Trump in Bombshell Testimony
Michael Cohen has not held back while testifying against his former boss Donald Trump. Trump’s ex-fixer and attorney took the stand Monday in the former president’s hush-money trial in Manhattan and proceeded to show in great detail some very strong evidence against the former president. Cohen told the court that he overheard Trump’s conversation with […]
Oglala police chief calls tribal law enforcement funding ‘a joke’ in congressional testimony
Pine Ridge is located in southwestern South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The town has a population just under 3,000 and is the headquarters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) The Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety is funded at 15% of its needs, its acting chief told appropriators […]