Michael Cohen returns to Trump trial for second day of testimony
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Michael Cohen is returning to the witness stand in former President Donald Trump's New York trial on Tuesday for his second day of testimony against his longtime boss.
Cohen served as Trump's personal attorney for nearly a decade before he entered the White House in 2017. He testified on Monday that Trump directly approved of a plan to reimburse him for a $130,000 payment he made before the 2016 election to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star who was selling her story of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
Those reimbursements were made over the course of the year and documented as payments for Cohen's legal services in the Trump Organization's records. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, one count for each invoice, check and voucher created in connection with the payments to Cohen. He has pleaded not guilty and denies having sex with Daniels.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.