Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has admitted to jurors in the Republican’s hush money trial that he stole tens of thousands of dollars from Trump’s company as defence lawyers attack his credibility.
He is the last prosecution witness, and it is not yet clear whether Trump’s attorneys will call any witnesses, let alone the presumptive Republican presidential nominee himself. “There’s no crime,” Trump told reporters after arriving at the courthouse on Monday. “We paid a legal expense. You know what it’s marked down as? A legal expense.”
Defence attorneys generally are reluctant to put their clients on the witness stand and open them up to intense questioning by prosecutors, as it often does more harm than good.Stormy Daniels on the witness stand Mr Cohen told jurors that Trump was intimately involved in the scheme to pay off Ms Daniels to prevent her from going public late in his 2016 presidential campaign with claims of a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump.
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