Keeping up with Trump’s court schedule is a dizzying task, since he faces two federal trials, a criminal trial in Georgia, and a separate civil trial and criminal trial in New York. (Oh, and he’s running for president.) To make things easier, we’ll be recapping the biggest Trump trial news at the end of each week.
This week was chock-full of drama, as Trump came face-to-face with his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen during his New York fraud trial. Trump was also slapped with another hefty fine for violating a gag order, and yet another one of his former attorneys, Jenna Ellis, pleaded guilty in the Georgia election interference case.
Trump’s disgraced former attorney and personal fixer took the witness stand in the former president’s civil fraud trial in New York, and it didn’t take long for drama to unfold. Cohen played a major role in establishing New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against Trump, with his 2019 congressional testimony tipping off authorities to Trump’s consistent overinflating of his properties and net worth in order to secure bank loans and more-favorable insurance rates.
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Over the course of two days, Cohen testified that he and former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization Allen Weisselberg were tasked with inflating Trump’s net worth in order to hit the former president’s desired number, which Cohen said Trump “arbitrarily elected.”
However, during cross-examination,...
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