Former President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify on Monday, Fox News reported.
Mr. Cohen was accused by the Manhattan District Attorney in 2016 of arranging a $130,000 payment to adult actress Stormy Daniels to keep her testimony about her alleged sexual relationship with Mr. Trump in the early 2000s. Alvin Bragg and his team are expected to be key witnesses.
Mr. Trump later made several payments of $35,000 to Mr. Cohen, who was his personal attorney at the time. President Trump denied there was any contact.
Those payments were the basis for Mr. Bragg to indict Mr. Trump for falsifying business records. Mr. Bragg seeks to demonstrate that these payments are reimbursements for payments made to Mr. Daniels.
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Michael Cohen (right), former personal lawyer of US President Donald Trump, in front of a federal courthouse in New York. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
But Trump’s lawyers argue that the $35,000 payment was not a “repayment” but a legal payment.
President Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 charges of first-degree falsification of business records.
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Michael Cohen is scheduled to testify Monday in the New York v. Trump criminal trial. (Getty Images)
Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to charges including campaign finance violations, lying to Congress and tax evasion. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
The former president has previously called Cohen a “proven liar.”
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President Trump speaks to the media as he leaves court during his trial in Manhattan Criminal Court, New York City, April 22, 2024. (Brendan McDiarmid Pool/Getty Images)
Earlier this week, Trump 2016 campaign press secretary and White House communications director Hope Hicks said Cohen calls himself “Mr. Fix-It” because “he was the first to break it.” He testified that it was nothing more than
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She testified that he often irritated campaign staff and did things that were unhelpful.
The unprecedented pursuit of the former president and potential Republican candidate for the 2024 election resumed on Friday with its 15th day of witness testimony.
Fox News Digital’s Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
