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Trump’s Manhattan Trial Is About a Lot More Than Hush Money
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Trump’s Manhattan Trial Is About a Lot More Than Hush Money

In April 2023, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced that his office had charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The case is historic. It is the first ever prosecution of an American president (current or former), and one of the most important trials of alleged election wrongdoing in American history. My book, Trying Trump: A Guide to His First Election Interference Criminal Trial, is a complete guide to understanding what will happen and why it matters.As DA Bragg has explained, the Manhattan case charges Trump with “conspiring to corrupt a presidential election and then lying in New York business records to cover it up.” The trial will center on Trump’s alleged efforts to conceal a hush money payment made to Stephanie Clifford,...
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Cohen signals Trump won’t testify in hush money case: ‘Not going to happen’
14Apr By adminNo Comments
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Cohen signals Trump won’t testify in hush money case: ‘Not going to happen’

Former President Trump’s ex-personal attorney, Michael Cohen, said that the former commander-in-chief will not testify in the hush money case, arguing it is “not going to happen.”  Cohen, a former ally of Trump who turned into a vocal critic of the former president, shut down the idea that he would testify in the New York case, the trial for which is set to begin on Monday.  “The likelihood of Donald Trump being on the stand is equal to the likelihood of me waking up tomorrow 7’6″ and playing center for the New York Knicks—it’s not gonna happen,” Cohen said during his Saturday appearance on MSNBC “The Weekend.”  His Saturday remarks come after Trump said on Friday that he would “absolutely” testify in the case where he is facing 34 felonies.  Cohen also added that Tr...
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Judge Says Michael Cohen’s Lawyer Cited 3 Cases That Apparently Don’t Exist
13Dec By adminNo Comments
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Judge Says Michael Cohen’s Lawyer Cited 3 Cases That Apparently Don’t Exist

A lawyer for Michael Cohen cited cases that don’t exist in a motion calling for the early termination of his client’s supervised release, a judge said Tuesday.Cohen received a three-year prison sentence in 2018 after pleading guilty to lying to Congress and campaign finance charges over his role in facilitating hush money payments from his former boss Donald Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels. He spent a little over a year behind bars and served the remainder of his sentence in home confinement before being released in November 2021. Cohen, however, still faced three years of supervised release.Attorney David Schwartz wrote in a motion letter dated Nov. 29 that since 2022, “there have been District Court decisions, affirmed by the Second Circuit Court, granting early termination of supervi...
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Trump, Cohen to come face to face in New York fraud trial
24Oct By adminNo Comments
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Trump, Cohen to come face to face in New York fraud trial

Former President Donald Trump is set to confront one of his most prominent accusers Tuesday, when his former attorney Michael Cohen takes the stand in Trump's New York fraud trial.Cohen, who was Trump's "fixer" for years, is a key witness against Trump in the New York civil case, as well as a separate Manhattan criminal case. In the civil case, Cohen is expected to testify about alleged communications with Trump and others about so-called statements of financial conditions.New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Trump, his adult sons and their company of using the statements to falsify the values of Trump properties, and ultimately Trump's overall wealth, in order to gain undeserved loan terms that in fact did increase Trump's wealth by hundreds of millions. ...
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Michael Cohen Says What Really ‘Appalled’ Him About Trump’s Georgia Arrest
28Aug By adminNo Comments
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Michael Cohen Says What Really ‘Appalled’ Him About Trump’s Georgia Arrest

Michael Cohen, a former fixer for Donald Trump, on Sunday expressed his disgust with what he described as the “royal treatment” the former president received when he surrendered to law enforcement officials in Fulton County, Georgia, last week over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.“I was appalled, to be honest with you, while watching the news and watching how Donald was brought to the Fulton County Jail,” Cohen told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. “Forty-motorcade in New Jersey, forty-motorcade in Georgia. Why? He’s nothing more than an indicted defendant.”“How much money did it cost the American taxpayers? How much money did it cost the people of Atlanta in order to put all the police officers? For what?” Cohen added. “For this man to roll up like he’s, you know, Caesar coming through the ...
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Michael Cohen Contemplates Congressional Run
11Aug By adminNo Comments
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Michael Cohen Contemplates Congressional Run

In yet another case of Donald Trump-era truth being stranger than fiction, Michael Cohen, a disgruntled ex-attorney for the former president, is weighing a potential Democratic primary run against Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York.Cohen, a resident of the East Side of Manhattan, told Semafor in a Thursday story that he is “interested” in campaigning for the seat and that a “multitude of folks” have urged him to follow through with the idea.HuffPost reached Cohen by phone Friday, but he declined to elaborate on his plans, saying that he is not yet prepared to speak about it. “As soon as I’m ready, I’ll definitely give you a call,” he promised.For years, Cohen served as a personal attorney and fixer for Trump. During the 2016 presidential election, he defended Trump on television. And more fate...
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