Former fixer Cohen testifies Trump viewed Stormy Daniels story as 'disaster' for campaign
Former Trump Attorney Michael Cohen, in March 2023, and former US President Donald Trump in May 2024.
Cohen, the prosecution's star witness, said he learned that Daniels was selling her story at a critical moment for Trump's White House bid, after the release of an audio recording from the TV show"Access Hollywood" in which Trump bragged about grabbing women's genitals. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records tied to the reimbursement. Prosecutors say the altered records covered up election-law and tax-law violations - since the money was essentially an unreported contribution to Trump's campaign - that elevate the crimes from misdemeanours to felonies punishable by up to four years in prison.
Cohen added that he recalled Trump saying,"Just get past the election, because if I win it will have no relevance because I'm the president, and if I lose, I won't really care." Trump can also be heard directing Cohen to pay with cash, which Cohen said was to"avoid any type of paper transaction." "He would comment that emails are like written papers, that he knows too many people who have gone down as a direct result of having emails that prosecutors can use in a case," Cohen said.
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