Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s one-time political fixer, testified Monday that the future U.S. president ordered him to make a secret $130,000 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels just days before the 2016 election. Cohen said the payment was to keep Daniels from talking about an alleged tryst with Trump, and then Trump disguised […]
CEOs tapped for donations as they draw up policy wish list WASHINGTON – The Washington Post is reporting that Donald Trump told a group of oil industry executives that if they raised $1 billion to support his presidential campaign, he would institute a range of policies favorable to their corporate interests. Separately, Politico reports that oil industry leaders are drafting “ ready-to-sign […]
Michael Cohen, a convicted perjurer, a former lawyer and one-time political fixer for Donald Trump, is set to testify on Monday against his ex-boss in the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president. Cohen, 57, worked for Trump, a New York real estate magnate since the early 2000s, before Trump became a politician. Cohen once […]
Prosecutors at Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial laid the groundwork Friday for the main event coming on Monday, the expected testimony of the former U.S. president’s longtime lawyer and political fixer, Michael Cohen, who now has turned against Trump. Cohen’s name has been mentioned almost daily during three weeks of testimony, often described as […]