John Cassidy on developments in Donald Trump’s civil trial, particularly Michael Cohen’s underperformance as a witness and Trump’s violations of a gag order.
The actual defendants in the case are Trump, two of his sons, and a pair of former senior executives in the Trump Organization. In a pretrial judgment late last month, Engoron decided the key issue in the case, ruling that the defendants committed fraud by inflating the value of Trump’s properties on financial-disclosure forms that they submitted to banks and other institutions.
After Cohen and Weisselberg had carried out this task, they would return to Trump, “demonstrating that we achieved—or close to—the number he was seeking,” Cohen testified. On Wednesday, under aggressive questioning from two Trump lawyers, Alina Habba and Cliff Robert, Cohen appeared to wilt.
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