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After the first day of Michael Cohen’s testimony, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would be returning to court on Wednesday. In 2019, allegations made by disgraced lawyer Cohen spurred the attorney general’s office to investigate President Trump. At the center of the case are the Statements of Financial Condition (SFC) for the Trump Organization from 2011 to 2021. On Tuesday, Cohen said that he personally altered together several of those statements with Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg under the direction of his former boss. Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer and one-time executive vice president of the Trump Organization,...

Wednesday was day two of the testimony of Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of former President Donald Trump in his business fraud trial in the New York State Supreme Court. Trump attorney Alina Habba pulled out all the stops when it came to “impeaching” the former president’s disgruntled ex-employee’s credibility before the court. Cohen, who has been vocal in his criticism of his former boss did not seem to be having an easy time dealing with defense attorney Alina Habba, who had already laid down the law with Cohen on Tuesday about how the trial was going to go....

Cohen, during his testimony earlier today, tried to distance himself from "hush money" payments made to ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal — despite having previously admitted involvement in a guilty plea with federal prosecutors. "I never paid Karen McDougal," he said Tuesday, while testifying that he had “complicity” in making hush money payments to Trump’s more well-known alleged lover, former porn star Stormy Daniels. Trump's former personal attorney and "fixer" also claimed from the stand that he has never evaded taxes — despite pleading guilty to that charge as well at a 2018 hearing in Manhattan federal court. *** McDougal and...

Former President Trump’s ex-fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen — whose past revelations about Trump’s wealth prompted the New York probe of his finances — is expected to take to the stand this week in an ongoing civil trial that could see the two men come face-to-face for the first time since they became sworn enemies. Previously the Trump Organization’s longtime executive vice president and general counsel, Cohen is a star witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s (D) case. Trump is expected to attend Cohen’s testimony in person — extending visits he made the first few weeks of the trial he...

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday unexpectedly dismissed a $500 million lawsuit against his former lawyer Michael Cohen while vowing to revisit it later. In a two-page document filed in federal court in Miami, an attorney for the former president said Trump was "voluntarily dismissing" the lawsuit, which alleged breaches of attorney-client privilege.

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and former personal attorney, lashed out at the former president’s attempt to discredit him as a witness Monday during the opening day of his New York civil fraud trial. Cohen argued that “disparaging somebody” is not a viable strategy for winning a legal case. “This is a guy who doesn’t understand disparaging somebody is not the way to win a case,” Cohen said in an interview Monday night with CNN’s Abby Phillip, referring to Trump. “What you need to do is to bring the evidence, bring the documents in order to clear your...

Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney for Donald Trump, predicted Tuesday on CNN’s “The Source” that the former president will likely be bankrupted by the damages awarded in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ civil suit after the judge found Trump is liable for fraud. Judge Arthur Engoron found, “The former president and his company deceived banks, insurers, and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing.” Anchor Kaitlan Collins said, “This is still going to trial. This is the judge saying the core of this investigation, it...

Many of the highest-ranking members of the Biden administration came from the same shadowy firm. It is a relatively new name among revolving-door power brokers in Washington D.C., which makes it all the more surprising. Founded in 2017, WestExec describes itself as a “diverse group of senior national security professionals with the most recent experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government. With deep knowledge and networks in the fields of defense, foreign policy, intelligence, cybersecurity, international economics, and strategic communications, our team has worked together around the White House Situation Room table, deliberating and deciding our nation’s foreign...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen said the lengthy sentences handed down to Jan. 6 defendants “should be a warning” to former President Trump’s co-defendants in the Georgia election case. In an interview on CNN, Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s fixer, warned that the 18 other defendants in the Georgia case are likely to face prison sentences that are “equally as painful” as that of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.

Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s personal attorney, called. the former president an “idiot” for not paying his alleged co-conspirators’ legal bills in the Georgia election case. Cohen questioned Monday why Trump would not pay the legal bills for his other codefendants who were indicted in Fulton County, Ga. — such as attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis. “Donald’s an idiot,” Cohen told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on “The Source.” “Let me just be very clear when it comes to paying money, he is truly an idiot. He has not learned yet that … three people you don’t want...

Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney for Donald Trump, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that if Republican primary voters nominate former President Donald Trump, they will be following him to a “dumpster fire.” Cohen said, “None of these indictments, if you read them, leave any doubt in anyone’s mind that Donald Trump will be held accountable for the allegations that are raised by either Jack Smith, by Alvin Bragg, by Fani Willis. I mean, it’s very crystal clear when you read these indictments exactly what was done. It’s all backed up with documentary evidence and testimony.”

Michael Cohen, who served as former President Trump’s personal attorney, said in a new interview that he is considering a run for Congress. Cohen told Semafor he is “interested” in running as a Democrat. Cohen added that he is currently living on the East Side of Manhattan, meaning he would potentially make a bid for New York’s 12th Congressional District seat, now held by Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.). “I am interested and there’s a multitude of folks encouraging me to run,” Cohen said in the interview.

In early 2015, a man who runs a small technology company showed up at Trump Tower to collect $50,000 for having helped Michael Cohen, then Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, try to rig online polls in his boss’s favor before the presidential campaign. In his Trump Organization office, Mr. Cohen surprised the man, John Gauger, by giving him both a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash and, randomly, a boxing glove that Mr. Cohen said had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter, Mr. Gauger said. Mr. Cohen disputed that he handed over a bag of...

Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen raised questions Wednesday about why Mark Meadows and Jared Kushner were missing from the latest indictment against former President Trump, suggesting the possibility that they could be cooperating witnesses. This week’s federal indictment against Trump, which charges him with four crimes related to his efforts to cling to power after the 2020 election, lists six unnamed co-conspirators, many of whose identities have been unveiled by the media. Cohen, Trump’s former attorney who is now an outspoken critic of the former president, pointed out that Meadows, Trump’s former chief of staff, and Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and...

Michael Cohen, former personal attorney of Donald Trump, compared the former president’s rhetoric and demands for unquestioning loyalty to the language in Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto in an interview Sunday. “Right out of ‘Mein Kampf,’” Cohen said, agreeing with MSNBC host Ali Velshi, “which allegedly Donald used to keep on the side of his table.” Cohen issued a warning to Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira, the two defendants charged alongside Trump in the case involving his handling of national security information and alleged obstruction. Invoking his own experience with loyalty to Trump, Cohen said his advice would be to...

Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s longtime fixer and now a key witness in the criminal case against him in Manhattan, warned the former president’s co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago documents case to “run” or “end up behind bars.” “Sadly, I’ve made this statement to many different people, starting with like Rudy ‘Collude-y’ Giuliani and so many others,” Cohen said on CNN on Friday. “Walt Nauta, run. Carlos [De Oliveira], run.” Nauta and De Oliveira were accused of helping Trump attempt to delete surveillance footage at Mar-a-Lago in a superseding indictment filed Thursday. Nauta, a Trump aide, was named in the previous...

Michael Cohen, a former personal attorney for Donald Trump, said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that the former president was “panicking inside” over the legal cases he is facing. Guest anchor Katie Phang asked, “Michael, Trump obviously he wears his emotions on his sleeve as he’s quick to demonize law enforcement and the DOJ, including Jack Smith. Privately, though, what is Donald Trump saying to the people in his immediate orbit about the prospect of actually doing jail time for his crimes?”

Michael Cohen, the onetime personal lawyer and fixer for Donald Trump, has settled his lawsuit accusing the Trump Organization of failing to cover millions of dollars of legal bills he incurred over his work for the former U.S. president. Lawyers for both sides disclosed the settlement at a hearing in a New York state court in Manhattan on Friday, three days before a trial was scheduled to begin. Terms of the settlement were not made public. Cohen and a lawyer for the Trump Organization issued statements that the matter "has been resolved in a manner satisfactory to all parties." Once...

Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen says Walt Nauta, the valet to the former president charged in the classified and sensitive documents case, should look out for himself and not think that Trump will protect him. Cohen said in an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on Thursday that Nauta believes the former president will protect him if he is loyal and not “throw him under the bus.” But he said Nauta should be able to learn from Cohen’s own experience, and those of other former Trump allies, that Trump can’t be trusted to protect his associates.

Michael Cohen, a onetime attorney of former President Trump, said on Saturday that Trump will “throw anyone and everyone under the bus,” after an unsealed indictment alleged that he misled his lawyer about the classified documents that remained in his possession. “Donald will throw anyone and everyone under the bus in order to preserve his own freedom, in order to benefit himself,” Cohen said in an interview with MSNBC’s Katie Phang.