Donald Trump’s infamous former personal attorney and self-described “Fixer” Michael Cohen finally delivered his long-awaited, sworn testimony in a Manhattan courtroom today and it was, as expected, absolutely full of bombshells — such as his under-oath claim that Trump warned him that “a lot of women” would come forward with allegations against him once he made his 2016 presidential campaign announcement.
Cohen sat in court and testified against the scandal-plagued former president and his own former boss today in Donald’s infamous Manhattan Stormy Daniels Hush Money criminal trial.
Ex-President Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in connection to hush money payments made to adult film star and alleged Trump affair partner, Stormy Daniels.
In 2018, the story of Trump’s alleged 2006 affair with Daniels went public, along with the discovery of the hush money payments made in 2016. According to reporting at the time, Trump’s then-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, paid Daniels $130,000 in the midst of Donald’s presidential campaign in an effort to buy her silence regarding the decade-old affair. It was later discovered that Trump reimbursed Cohen the $130,000 paid to Daniels. Cohen was ultimately sentenced to 3 years in prison back in 2018 for his role in the cover-up scheme.
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Today marked Michael Cohen’s first day of testimony in a Manhattan court in the case against Donald Trump for the same scandal that sent him to prison.
Trump’s defense, in this case, has largely boiled down to the claim that Donald paid the money to Daniels in an effort to protect his family, most specifically his wife, from the embarrassment of his extramarital affair going public — suggesting that the hush money payments were not connected to the 2016 presidential election in any way. The prosecution’s entire case rests on that hush money/presidential campaign connection, as they have to prove that the payments flouted federal campaign finance laws.
Michael Cohen’s damning testimony today appears to be doing just that.
Sitting before the court, his former boss, and a jury of Trump’s peers, Cohen testified that Donald Trump made a damning admission and warning to him as he prepared to launch his 2016 presidential campaign: “You know, when this comes out, there are going to be a lot of women coming forward.”
Trump knew…
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