NATION: It is Monday in Manhattan and in the Manhattan district Court, today, the former attorney for the former US President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen will begin testifying in the Trump criminal hush money trial. The merits of Cohen's testimony will include his response to questions surrounding his role in Trump company's falsified business records and the plan established to make surreptitious payments to adult film star and producer, Stormy Daniels. By Michelle Crawford-Sapenter Today, one of the major questions that may be answered by Michael Cohen is the question of Trump's instructions made to him in regard to the hush money delivery to Stormy Daniels.
According to comments made, last week, by a person onthe Trump payroll, Cohen was repaid unspecified amounts as a matter of expenses paid out during the Trump campaign.
It had been learned, however, as a result of Cohen's comments, that a portion of the reimbursed funds was a $130,000 dollar payment made to shut Daniels mouth to prevent her exposure of her sordid affair with Trump during 2006. In court last week, evidence had been provided involving 34 invoices that contained details associated with checks that had been paid by the Trump company, however, it was indicated by the trial prosecutors that the invoice details had been manipulated.
As a matter of evidence uncovered during the 2016 investigation, the case against Trump was provided further audience after it had been discovered that invoices baring details of payments to Cohen were actual cover-ups for tax violations and election law violations. Prosecutors , thereafter, pursued a case involving a felony adding a higher criminal violation to the mere hush money payment made to Daniels.
Cohen remains a key witness in the ongoing criminal trial. While Cohen is expected to divulge facts involving his role in the Trump budiness statement cover-ups, the former close associated—tagged “fixer”— stated, in truth, that some comments made during his former testimonies had been fraudulent.
Today, the 34 charges filed against the former President have been denied. Trump has plead not guilty to each of the charges.
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