End of Trump hush-money trial nears as Cohen wraps up testimony

Finish of Trump hush-money trial nears as Cohen wraps up testimony – BBC Information

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Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is because of give his closing day of testimony within the ex-president’s hush-money trial in New York
Trump denies falsifying enterprise data to cowl up an alleged sexual encounter with porn star Stormy Daniels – an encounter that he denies befell
Cohen as soon as mentioned he would take a bullet for Trump, however later turned towards his former boss – and has now been known as because the prosecution’s star witness
He has already testified that Trump accepted a plan to reimburse him for $130,000 (£104,300) that was paid to Daniels as hush cash forward of the 2016 election
Final week, he additionally informed the courtroom he lied for his former boss out of “loyalty” and to “defend” Trump
The defence spent hours attacking Cohen’s credibility as a witness, highlighting his convictions for mendacity to Congress and different legal prices