Michael Cohen, a key witness in Trump's hush money case, has become increasingly vocal ahead of his anticipated testimony in the trial.
Cohen has participated in a string of recent media interviews in which he acknowledges that Trump’s defense team will attempt to undermine his credibility during the trial, including by showcasing Cohen’s felony convictions and incentives Cohen may have to lie about Trump.
While Cohen has been outspokenly criticizing Trump, the former president is restricted by a gag order from speaking about Cohen and other known witnesses in the case. Cohen, who once worked as Trump’s attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty in 2018 to lying to a bank, evading taxes, and violating campaign finance laws. Later that year, he also pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. He was sentenced to three years in prison and eventually blamed Trump for encouraging his criminal activity.
Trump’s defense attorneys indicated in pretrial court papers that they had received at the eleventh hour a wealth of exculpatory discovery from the U.S. attorney’s office that prosecuted Cohen, and they alleged Bragg had attempted to suppress it. Cohen also published books that were critical of Trump, and the attorneys said Cohen stood to profit from book sales by making salacious claims about his former client. Cohen’s 2022 book about Trump was titled“Cohen’s writings regarding President Trump and agreements with publishers … provide financial motivations for Cohen to make things up regarding President Trump to sell more ads on his podcasts and more books,” the attorneys wrote.
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