Trump's Legal Team Grills Michael Cohen In Explosive Testimony (Live Updates)

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 Ex-attorney Michael Cohen took the stand for the third day Thursday in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial, as the ex-president’s attorneys continue their cross-examination of Trump’s longtime “fixer.”


 Cohen is the central witness at the trial: Trump has been charged with falsification of business records based on reimbursement checks he sent Cohen, after the attorney paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to cover up allegations of an affair.

Trump’s lawyers have sought to discredit Cohen as a witness, after he told the jury the ex-president was personally involved with the hush money and reimbursement scheme.

Cohen will be prosecutors’ final witness before they rest their case in the criminal trial, prosecutors said on Tuesday. That means the case could go to the jury as soon as next week, as Trump attorney Todd Blanche suggested Tuesday the defense is likely to call few, if any, witnesses—and it still remains up in the air whether Trump will testify in his own defense.

Cohen was Trump’s longtime personal attorney and “fixer” before flipping on the ex-president in 2018, when Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple crimes, including campaign finance violations stemming from his payment to Daniels. He was sentenced to three years in prison, and has gone on to become one of Trump’s most outspoken critics. Cohen paid Daniels in the days before the 2016 election and was reimbursed by Trump through a series of checks paid throughout 2017. Prosecutors allege those checks were falsely labeled as legal payments, which Trump denies. The ex-president has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him, and has long denied Daniels’ allegations of an affair. Cohen’s testimony began on Monday, telling the jury during prosecutors’ questioning that Trump was personally involved with the Daniels payment, with Cohen keeping the then-candidate in the loop on the payment and claiming it could not have gone forward without his approval. While Trump’s lawyers have sought to distance their client from the reimbursement checks, Cohen testified Trump was also directly involved with planning the reimbursement payments, and was present when then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg told Cohen they would be falsely labeled as being for legal services.

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