Donald Trump finalized the details of reimbursing Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, for a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels during a meeting in the Oval Office the month after Mr. Trump took office as U.S. president, Mr. Cohen testified Tuesday.
He also backed prosecutors’ other contention, that the payment to Ms. Daniels, as well as an earlier payoff by the publisher of the National Enquirer to alleged former Trump mistress Karen McDougal, were done to influence the election. Mr. Johnson told reporters without evidence that the prosecution of Mr. Trump was intended to “provide cover” for President Joe Biden ahead of this year’s election. Entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy complained that court was a “bore” and also “straight out of a Kafka novel.” North Dakota Governor Doug Bergham called the proceedings a “scam trial.”
Early in 2018, as the details of the payment to Ms. Daniels became public, Mr. Cohen ran interference for Mr. Trump. In text messages, he told Ms. Daniels’s lawyer to “write a strong denial” that the payoff had happened and wrote a second statement for her himself. These statements are still used by Mr. Trump to claim that he never slept with her.
Court saw an e-mail from Robert Costello, a lawyer connected to Rudy Giuliani, one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers at the time, reassuring Mr. Cohen that he could maintain a “back channel” to Mr. Trump and that he had “friends in high places.”'
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