Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News.
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Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s hush money trial walked jurors through the financial specifics of their case against the former president.
A former chief of accounting at the Trump Organization testified today that he was instructed to pay $420,000 to Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, using a form of reimbursement that was totally unfamiliar to him.
“Allen said we had to get some money for Michael,” former Trump company comptroller Jeffrey McConney said on the stand, referring to Cohen and to McConney’s supervisor, Trump CFO Allen Weisselberg, who is now in jail.
The company’s chief financial officer called McConney into a meeting in January of 2017 — the month of Trump’s inauguration as president — and presented him with a bank statement from Cohen that also contained handwritten notes and dollar amounts from Weisselberg.
The bank statement listed a $130,000 payment to a lawyer representing porn actor Stormy Daniels. Prosecutors say the bank account was for a shell company set up by Cohen to pay Daniels’ lawyer.
Weisselberg’s notes showed dollar amounts totaling $420,000 to be paid to Cohen in monthly installments of $35,000 beginning in February of 2018.
McConney spent three hours on the stand — over numerous defense objections — combing through invoices, emails, Trump company ledger entries, tax forms, and a government ethics filing as he was questioned by a prosecutor and then a defense lawyer about the payments to Cohen, which were billed by the company as legal work covered by a retainer agreement between Trump and Cohen.
Prosecutors say the payments in 2017 weren’t for legal work, but were instead reimbursements disguised as monthly taxable income so Trump could pay Cohen back for a $130,000 hush money payment
Donald Trump said that his campaign has agreed to participate in a vice presidential debate — but on Fox News.
Barron Trump is a high school graduate! Former President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump’s 18-year-old son graduated from Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach on Friday, May 17.What Barron Trump revealed about his dad Donald Trump during a dinner at Mar-a-LagoThe former first couple looked like any other proud mom and dad at the graduation ceremony, where they were joined by Melania’s father, Viktor Knavs. Barron was photographed walking on stage, collecting his diploma, while his parents sat in the stands with other attendees.
As Michael Cohen returned to the stand for cross-examination this morning, Donald Trump‘s attorney loudly accused him of lying about the nature of a phone call eight years ago, which Cohen said was to discuss with then-candidate Trump a payoff to the porn star Stormy Daniels.
UPDATE: Michael Cohen took the stand for the second day in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial, and recounted an Oval Office meeting with the then-president in April 2018.
Michael Cohen, Donald Trump‘s former attorney and fixer who has since turned into one of his chief antagonists, took the stand today in the former president’s hush money trial.
Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed today with testimony from a former White House aide who was fired for talking with reporters about what she saw around the Oval Office.
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Donald Trump‘s trial on charges that he obstructed justice and withheld classified documents has been delayed indefinitely, a federal judge wrote in an order today.
UPDATE: Stormy Daniels is scheduled to testify today in Donald Trump‘s hush money trial in New York.
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