Key takeaways as Cohen faces more questioning on day 17 of Trump’s trial
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Former Trump lawyer faces cross-examination in New York after accusing ex-president of taking part in hush money scheme.
Donald Trump’s erstwhile lawyer Michael Cohen has faced a tough cross-examination, as he delivered a second day of testimony in the former United States president’s hush-money trial in New York.
Cohen is the prosecution’s star witness — and his testimony marks the pinnacle of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against the former president.
On Tuesday, prosecutors also announced that Cohen will be the final witness they plan to call, as the first criminal trial against a US president nears its seeming conclusion.
As he returned to the witness stand on Tuesday, Cohen sought to make the case that Trump, his former boss, orchestrated a hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels — and then covered it up by filing the charges as “legal expenses”.
The former Republican president, who is seeking re-election in November, faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the case.
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