Prosecutors in the New York criminal trial against former President Donald Trump are expected to call Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen to the witness stand on Monday, the prosecutor said. live update From the court.
After the trial concluded on Friday, prosecutors requested that Allen Weisselberg’s severance agreement from the Trump Organization be introduced into evidence. Weisselberg, a former executive at the company, is currently in prison for tax evasion.
The defense rejected the request, noting that he was an “uninvoked government reference.”
“Mr. Weisselberg’s absence from this trial is a very complex issue,” said Emile Bove, Mr. Trump’s lawyer.
Acting Judge Juan Melchan responded: “I think it would help my decision if I knew that some effort was made to compel his appearance.”
President Trump said, “The entire incident is a fabrication.”
Prosecutors acknowledged they did not try to compel Mr. Weisselberg to testify.
The defense asked Marchand to place a gag order on Cohen, who regularly posts on social media. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, cited a recent TikTok post in which Cohen wore a T-shirt with an illustration of Trump while in prison.
Blanche asked the court to “order the government to instruct witnesses not to speak about President Trump or this case until the litigation is over.”
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass argued that he had “no control” over the witness’ actions.
“We have asked the witnesses over and over and over again not to do that,” he said.
Marchand instructed prosecutors to remind Cohen to “refrain from making any further comments” about the case or Trump.
Last week, President Trump’s former communications director and campaign aide Hope Hicks told a jury that the $130,000 he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels in so-called “hush money” was untrue. he told the jury. blaze news Previously reported. She argued that it was “against common sense” for Mr. Cohen to make such payments himself.
Corporate media has repeatedly referred to Mr. Cohen as Mr. Trump’s former “fixer,” but Mr. Hicks explained that Mr. Cohen made a name for himself. She suggested that Trump would “self-interfere” in the 2016 presidential election and would be a “rogue,” much to the displeasure of his campaign.
“He tried to insert himself at certain moments, but he was not supposed to participate in the campaign in an official capacity,” Hicks told the jury. “He liked to call himself the Fixer, or Mr. Fix-It, and it was only because he broke it first that he could fix it afterwards.”
President Trump told reporters outside the courthouse on Friday that “the whole case is a fabrication” and “the judge is corrupt.” He said the entire case was about “someone paying a lawyer” and identified himself. He added that the payments were made to lawyers and “not fixers.”
President Trump said, “There was no crime.
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