Trump trial live updates with Michael Cohen expected to testify today
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Michael Cohen, who was among Donald Trump's most trusted legal advisers before Trump was elected president in 2016, is expected to testify Monday against his former boss, regarding the 34 alleged felonies Trump faces.
Cohen's appearance represents the near-culmination of the prosecution's case in a criminal trial unlike any in U.S. history, with a former president sitting at the defense table. For the last three weeks, Trump has watched as 19 witnesses testified, many of them his employees.
Cohen is expected to testify that Trump knew of and authorized an alleged plan to represent a year's worth of checks from Trump to Cohen as payments for ongoing legal work. Prosecutors say they were actually reimbursements for $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election to buy her silence about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump, which Trump denies.
