Michael Cohen , one-time personal lawyer to former US president Donald Trump, leaves his apartment building en route to Manhattan Criminal Court on May 16th in New York City. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty’s lawyers resumed their cross-examination of the Republican presidential candidate’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen on Thursday, aiming to undermine his testimony that Mr Trump was intimately involved in buying an adult film star’s silence over an alleged sexual encounter.
“He didn’t deliver any hammer blows,” George Grasso, a retired New York state judge who has been attending the trial, said of Mr Blanche’s questioning of Mr Cohen. “If the case were to end right now, I think that they have enough evidence on the record to justify a finding by this jury beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump is guilty.”
Mr Trump has argued that his monthly payments to Mr Cohen throughout 2017 were for his work as his personal lawyer to the president, meaning there was nothing improper about the word “retainer” being written on the checks Mr Trump signed.Prosecutors say the reimbursement payments were falsely labelled as legal expenses in the Trump Organisation’s records to conceal the Daniels pay-off, which they say violated US election campaign finance law.
Mr Cohen carries significant baggage as a witness. He pleaded guilty to federal crimes in 2018 for offences related to the Daniels payment and lying to Congress during an investigation into Mr Trump’s Russia ties. He told jurors on Tuesday he lied repeatedly to journalists and others about the Daniels scandal.
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