ANDThe former lawyer and right-hand man of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), Michael Cohen, acknowledged this Monday that he stole $30,000 from the Trump Organization in the criminal trial against the former president, which will last another week.
However, the magistrate noted today that It is “evident” that the lawyers will not be able to make their final arguments this Tuesdayas I wanted.
“Unfortunately, the calendar is what it is,” Merchan noted, referring to the fact that next Friday and Monday there will be no trial – a holiday in the US is combined with a trip for one of the jurors -, which is Plus there is no session on Wednesdays.
The jury must unanimously agree on the verdict.
If the jurors still can’t reach a consensus, Merchan would eventually have to declare a mistrial, when a trial ends before a verdict is rendered.
Objective: Break Cohen
Last week, Cohen testified that Trump ordered him to pay $130,000 to silence Stormy Daniels during the election campaign. a porn star who claims to have had an affair with Trump in 2006, and detailed how Trump later reimbursed her for her expenses.
Blanche tried to ‘break’ Cohen on several occasions by questioning his version and trying to cloud the payment schedule for the cover-up of the extramarital affair, which is why she questioned Cohen repeatedly about the dates and calls of the key days in those in which payments were made to the porn actress.
Cohen told how, with Trump’s permission, he made a payment to RedFinch, a company that was hired to manipulate an online survey of the most prominent entrepreneurs of the century and that Trump appears in the ‘Top 10’.
I got angry about my bonus being reduced, so I felt like it was almost like self-help
Millionaire salary
So when the payment to Daniels was leaked, Cohen repeatedly denied that Trump knew nothing about the transaction.
Cohen didn’t make money until he started telling his story through two books, for which he has earned $3.4 million, and two podcasts, which have earned him $1 million.
The man who was Trump’s ‘man for everything’ said that at that time he lost his career and did not earn money until he began to tell his story through two books – for which he has earned 3.4 million – and two podcasts – which They have generated a million dollars.
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Today it seemed that one of the defense’s objectives, with its repetitive questions, was to make the trial last as long as possible.
That clashes with the official point of view of Trump, who constantly complains that this trial – which he is obliged to attend – interrupts his election campaign for this year’s presidential elections.
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