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Michael Cohen — the most pivotal witness in the Manhattan district attorney’s hush money case against Donald Trump — will take the stand Monday for what’s expected to be at least two days of testimony against his old boss in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. In the witness box, Cohen will be seated just feet from Trump, whom he has repeatedly mocked on social media and in interviews, including since the start of the trial.
He is an admitted liar,” Blanche added, referring in part to Cohen’s 2018 guilty plea to making false statements to Congress about a proposed project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Prosecutors said he’d lied in order to minimize Trump’s ties to Russia, which were being scrutinized by Congress and federal investigators at that time.
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