Prosecutors began their questioning of once-devoted Trump fixer Michael Cohen Monday with an eye toward humanizing the disbarred attorney and emphasizing his direct contact with the president, according to a legal expert.
Cohen took the stand Monday in a Manhattan courthouse as prosecutors used his testimony and evidence from phone records to audio recordings to put together the pieces of Trump’s alleged scheme to quash salacious stories about extramarital affairs with hush money and then disguise those payments as legal fees – all in violation of state law.
