The loud, combative, and boisterous Michael Cohen ditched his usual bravado and showed up to the witness stand on Monday as a somber man reflecting on the disaster that was his time working for Donald Trump.
The disgraced lawyer who lost his professional license and spent months in a federal prison to protect his former boss came ready to turn on him in court, for the first time publicly answering questions from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
Wearing a dark gray suit over his white shirt and pastel pink tie, Cohen made his way into the courtroom at 9:40 a.m. with a startled look on his face, like a deer in headlights as the entire room turned its attention to the star witness at the first criminal trial against a former president in American history.
