Trump’s lawyer accuses Michael Cohen of lying at hush money trial
New York, US Reuters Donald Trump’s lawyer on Thursday accused star witness Michael Cohen of lying at the former US President’s trial about a phone conversation he claimed to have had with Trump about a hush money payment to a porn star shortly before the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche said the phone […]
Trump’s lawyers assail estranged fixer Michael Cohen’s credibility at hush money trial
New York, US Reuters Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen sustained a withering assault from the Republican presidential candidate’s legal team on Tuesday, as Trump’s defence lawyers sought to undermine Cohen’s testimony that Trump was intricately involved in a scheme to buy a porn star’s silence. In sometimes aggressive questioning, Trump attorney Todd Blanche confronted […]
Ex-fixer Michael Cohen testifies Trump signed off on hush money payment to porn star
New York City, US Reuters Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors on Monday that the Republican presidential candidate personally approved a hush money payment to bury a porn star’s story of a sexual encounter before it could derail his 2016 campaign. “Just do it,” Cohen said Trump told him, instructing him to figure […]
Dozens of potential jurors at Trump hush money trial dismissed for bias
New York, US Reuters The judge in Donald Trump’s hush money trial dismissed dozens of potential jurors on Monday who said they could not impartially decide whether the former US President is guilty or innocent of criminal charges. On the first day of the historic criminal trial, the first to involve a former president, Justice […]
Trump charges bring New York ‘zombie case’ back to life
New York, US Reuters Manhattan has started and stopped its investigation into Donald Trump’s hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels so many times that it has come to be known as a “zombie case” like the mythical character who returns from the dead. A grand jury of New Yorkers has brought charges against the […]
Updated: Trump criminally charged in New York, a first for a US ex-president
Updated: 3pm (AEDT)New York, USReuters Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former US president to face criminal charges even as he makes another run for the White House. The specific charges are not yet known, as […]