NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Cohen assoonas announced he’d “take a bullet” for Donald Trump. Now, after breaking with the previous president amidst his own legal problems, the fixer-turned-foe is poised to affirm versus his old employer Tuesday as a secret witness at the civil scams trial that threatens to upend Trump’s genuine estate empire and rich image.
Trump is anticipated to be in court for the extremely preparedfor testament, detouring from his typical project haunts to the Manhattan courtroom for a 6th day this month. Cohen ditched their anticipated face-off last week, pointingout a health problem. Cohen has stated it will be his veryfirst time seeing Trump in 5 years.
Trump wentto the trial for 2 days last week — havingactually prepared the journey when it was anticipated that Cohen would be affirming. Trump was likewise in court for the trial’s initially 3 days in early October. The trial wasn’t held Monday since of problems associated to an obvious COVID-19 directexposure. Trump is anticipated to affirm lateron in the trial. All of his journeys to the case so far haveactually been voluntary.
Each time, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican governmental election has grumbled to TELEVISION cams in the courthouse corridor about a case he’s derided as a “sham,” a “scam” and “a extension of the single biggest witch hunt of all time.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James’ suit declares that Trump and leading executives at his business, the Trump Organization, conspired to pad the company mogul-turned-politician’s internet worth by billions of dollars on monetary declarations offered to bank