It’s crunch time in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial.
On Monday, his ex-attorney and fixer Michael Cohen is expected to testify in what may prove to be a defining moment for the historic first criminal case against a former U.S. president. The erstwhile Trump loyalist now turns star witness against him after the prosecution spent the first weeks of the case laying the groundwork for Cohen’s highly anticipated appearance.
Cohen is absolutely key for the prosecution because he was the man who paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 in 2016, allegedly to stop her from speaking out about a one-night stand she’d had with Trump a decade earlier. Prosecutors say the Trump Organization then falsely recorded reimbursements to Cohen as legal fees as part of an effort to obscure the real purpose of the payments.
