“It’s a very sad day for our country, for New York.” Donald Trump reacted with his notorious “fury” to the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen at the trial on the alleged financial irregularities committed by the tycoon to buy the silence of the former porn star Stephanie Clifford, alias Stormy Daniels. Cohen is the key witness in the trial […]
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“It’s a very sad day for our country, for New York.” Donald Trump his notorious reacted “fury” to the testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen at the trial on the alleged financial irregularities committed by the tycoon to buy the silence of the former porn star Stephanie Clifford, alias Stormy Daniels.
Cohen is the key witness in the open trial New Yorkbecause it was he who paid the agreed upon 130 thousand dollars to the woman to prevent her from publicly revealing that she had had a sexual intercourse with Trump in 2006. A circumstance that would have undermined the Republican leader’s electoral run in 2016. Daniels has already confirmed the details of the relationship before the judges in recent days. The accusation against the former president is that he returned that black money to Cohen.
The former lawyer and fixer (“fixer” as the US media define him) of the tycoon told the jury how, together with the former financial manager of the Trump Organization, Allen Weisselbergand at the same Trump built the mechanism to obtain from Trump the reimbursement of the 130 thousand dollars to buy Daniels’ silence. The mechanism was put in place after Trump’s victory in January 2017 when, according to Cohen’s story, Weisselberg suggested that the reimbursement be considered compensation for professional services, rather than a non-taxable refund. “I didn’t think much about it, I just wanted my money back,” Cohen said. In the courtroom, the prosecutors made their voices heard a audiorecorded by Cohen, in which Trump is heard talking about the need to buy McDougal’s story too.
After Cohen’s testimony, which lasted several hours, Trump also attacked the judge again Juan Merchan accusing him of being “a corrupt judge, who has a conflict of interest and who is preventing me from campaigning”. Merchan imposed has Trump a gag order, that is, a “gag order” that prevents him from attacking witnesses in the trial.
During the trial, several Republican representatives, including senators, were present as a sign of solidarity with the former president JD Vance And Tommy Tuberville, as well as the Iowa Attorney General. “They think a terrible thing is happening to democracy in this country, many have come, many want to come. I tell them, stay where you are and pass laws to prevent things like this,” Trump said.
