was back in the hot seat on Thursday as defence lawyers tried to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president.
Cohen is prosecutors’ final witness — at least for now — as they try to prove Trump schemed to suppress a damaging story he feared would torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign, and then falsified business records to cover it up.Defense attorney Todd Blanche stands making the "swearing in" hand gesture when cross examining Michael Cohen, as Donald Trump, left, looks on with Judge Juan Merchan presiding, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York.
The case is the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president and the first of four prosecutions of Trump to reach a jury. As he has said previously, Cohen said he was doing research with an AI tool, and it served up a few cases that sounded useful but turned out to be inventions.'Lone wolf' charged with shooting Slovak prime minister