Donald Trump's defense team on Monday sought to paint star witness Michael Cohen as not just a liar but a thief, nothing that the former president's ex-fixer pocketed some of the money that he was supposed to pay a third-party vendor.
Earlier in Trump's hush money trial, prosecutors introduced evidence showing that Cohen was paid $50,000 by then-Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg for the stated purpose of reimbursing RedFinch, an IT company that had helped the 2016 Trump campaign game online polls. Cohen previously testified that Trump had balked at paying the company, forcing him to do it himself. Cohen was provided the money to do so alongside money that prosecutors say was reimbursement for a $130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels.
