Michael Cohen will face a bruising cross-examination by Donald Trump’s lawyers at the hush money trial
‘What I was doing, I was doing at the direction of and benefit of Mr. Trump,’ Cohen testified.
‘What I was doing, I was doing at the direction of and benefit of Mr. Trump,’ Cohen testified.
‘It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. Therefore going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction.’
‘I had a good sense to believe this was going to be a massive story and that it was going to dominate the news cycle for the next several days.’
The prosecution’s star witness has yet to take the stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial. But jurors are already hearing Michael Cohen’s words as prosecutors work to directly tie Trump to payments to silence women with damaging claims about him before the 2016 election. The second week of testimony in the case will wrap up…
‘If he does not have funds to pay off the judgment, then we will seek judgment enforcement mechanisms in court, and we will ask the judge to seize his assets.’
The woman, later identified as a court system employee, retreated after a court officer told her to return to her seat.
The lawsuit alleges that Weisselberg engineered Trump’s financial statements to meet his demands that they show increases in his net worth.
If not successfully appealed, the order would strip Trump of his authority to make strategic and financial decisions over some of his key properties in the state.
Trump said he never felt his financial statements ‘would be taken very seriously,’ and that people who did business with him were given ample warning not to trust them.