Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed Monday in Manhattan criminal court, where Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and so-called fixer, has returned to the witness stand for his fourth day of testimony about his role in facilitating the $130,000 payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to conceal the sexual affair she says had with the former president.
Cohen testified on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday last week about the hush money agreement he struck with Daniels on the eve of the 2016 presidential election for her to stay silent about her alleged tryst with Trump a decade earlier. During cross-examination, which will continue Monday, lawyers for Trump have sought to portray Cohen as a serial liar with an ax to grind against Trump.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal the hush money payment to Daniels. Judge Juan Merchan told attorneys this morning that closing arguments in the hush money trial will begin Tuesday, May 28, the day after Memorial Day.
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