Michael Cohen is now laying out the first catch-and-kill story that he worked on with The National Enquirer. We heard about this in previous testimony. It was about an allegation by a doorman at a Trump building that Trump had fathered a child out of wedlock. Cohen is describing telling Trump about it.
May 13, 2024, 10:40 a.m. ET4 hours ago
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Jonah Bromwich
Reporting from inside the courthouse
With very little wind-up, about an hour in, we are already hearing Michael Cohen describe the first of the three hush-money deals that jurors have heard about. The last of them is Cohen’s own $130,000 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
May 13, 2024, 10:41 a.m. ET4 hours ago
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Kate Christobek
Reporting from inside the courthouse
This story has previously gotten a rise out of Trump when discussed at the trial, but today, he opens his eyes briefly and looks in Cohen’s direction before closing them again with a slight smirk.