“Stormy Daniels” affair
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A key witness for the prosecution in the New York trial of the former president, the man who was his trusted man revealed the shenanigans undertaken in 2016 to save at all costs a presidential campaign then beset by scandals.
It was not until the sixteenth day of Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York, Monday May 13, that the voice of the former president and current candidate for the White House resonated for the first time inside the room. Manhattan court hearing. Slumped in the accused’s chair, the accused nevertheless kept his lips closed – and, as for most of the day, his eyes too. The entire room fell silent to listen to an audio document played at the request of prosecutors. A recording almost eight years old, surreptitiously captured by the phone of Michael Cohen, at the time the lawyer, the confidant, but above all the man to solve everything (from slates to pots) and the “pitbull” claimed by Trump, who became his nemesis after their breakup in 2018, and since his appearance on the stand on Monday, the key witness, and the most damning for the one he formerly called “Boss” in this trial of the so-called “Stormy Daniels” case.
By his own admission to the court, under oath, Michael Cohen very often lied, bullied, or intimidated people in the name of