MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow expressed disgust over the considered a sexual encounter with Donald Trump whereas digging into the salacious particulars revealed in his hush cash trial this week, RadarOnline.com has discovered.
Trump returned to the Manhattan courtroom on Monday, the place his former private legal professional Michael Cohen started testifying as a star witness. Cohen, the previous president’s “fixer,” mentioned how he allegedly facilitated the funds to maintain the unfavorable tales about his boss from hitting the press.
Cohen testified a couple of $130k cost he allegedly made to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels in change for her silence about an affair she claimed to have had with Trump in 2006. The alleged encounter reportedly occurred at a Lake Tahoe resort throughout a golf occasion, and Cohen revealed on the stand that former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was in attendance.
In accordance with Cohen’s testimony, Trump bragged about Daniels selecting him as a romantic companion over an athlete like Roethlisberger, and quoted the previous president as saying, “Ladies desire Mr. Trump even over somebody like ‘Massive Ben.'”
Whereas discussing this tidbit from the trial, Maddow questioned why prosecutors went “out of their strategy to level out” that Roethlisberger had been on the golf occasion.
“Now we all know, opposite to Trump’s denials, that he had intercourse with Stormy Daniels,” Maddow asserted.
“Michael Cohen testified right this moment that when he requested Donald Trump if something had occurred between him and Stormy Daniels, Trump bragged to Michael Cohen that, yeah, regardless that he was there at this golf occasion with ‘Massive Ben Roethlisberger,’ the ladies there – like Stormy Daniels – they needed him greater than they needed Massive Ben,” the host continued, earlier than making a gagging sound.
Maddow went on to say that Cohen, whom she known as an “enforcer” and a “bully,” marked a major step within the case by “tying up the free ends” and “filling within the gaps within the story.”
One other revelation from his testimony concerned the monetary struggles of Trump College. Cohen claimed that he advised distributors and contractors that they might solely obtain a fraction of the funds requested by way of invoices.
“Trump was not going to fund the stability, so what I did was put them right into a handwritten spreadsheet, and divided the $2 million, and got here to roughly 20% of the bill,” Cohen advised the court docket. “All however two distributors accepted the 20%, he stated, noting that the opposite two “simply went away” with out being paid.
Maddow argued that Cohen’s testimony cemented the truth that Trump was “within the room the place it occurred, within the worst doable method.”
Cohen took the witness stand once more on Tuesday within the case the place Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data to make the alleged hush cash funds.