Trump stormed out of court after Cohen, his former personal attorney and fixer, testified that the ex-president had never asked him to inflate the numbers on his financial statements. Cohen was testifying in the $250 million New York civil fraud trial concerning Trump’s business dealings.After Cohen’s remark, Trump’s attorney asked the judge for a directed verdict to dismiss the trial, which the judge denied. Trump then said “I’m leaving” and walked out,“He slams his hands on the table.
“This is only a New York attorney general civil matter,” he continued. “Could you imagine if, hypothetically, right now he had to deal with a foreign nation? With all that’s going on in the country right now, in the world, could you imagine? This is the guy who’s going to represent us.”Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.