attorney Michael Cohen admitted on Monday to jurors in the Republican's hush money trial that he stole tens of thousands of dollars from Trump's company as defence lawyers seized on the star witness' misdeeds to attack his credibility.
While being pressed by defence attorney Todd Blanche, Cohen admitted that he pocketed cash that was supposed to be reimbursement for a $39,000 payment Cohen claimed he had shelled out to a technology firm.“So you stole from the Trump Organisation,” Blanche asked.Cohen has never been charged with stealing from Trump’s company.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office is expected to rest its case once Cohen is off the stand, but prosecutors would have have an opportunity to call rebuttal witnesses if Trump’s lawyers put on witnesses of their own. And he has made millions of dollars off critical books about the former president, whom he regularly slams on social media in often profane terms.
A key moment came Thursday, when Blanche accused Cohen of lying about the purpose of a phone call to Trump's bodyguard days before Cohen wired Daniels' lawyer $102,000 . The judge has limited what Smith can address, however, and the defence could decide not to call him, after all.