More importantly, Cohen again and again confirmed that trump was aware that the checks were being sent to reimburse Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels.
trump didn’t create the payment scheme. trump didn’t write the fake invoices. But trump was aware of what was happening and encouraged the use of the false documents. That’s all it takes.
At the end of the testimony, prosecutors led Cohen though the post-election period and particularly into the time when the investigation from special counsel Robert Mueller resulted in his house and office being searched.
Don’t feel sorry for Cohen, considering his years of defending trump, his role in setting up schemes to hide trump’s affairs, and how everyone who ever met the man seems to describe him as a jerk. But as Cohen related how he was slowly forced into the wilderness—with more and more layers between himself and trump and promises that seemed both distant and empty—it was hard not to feel … something.
On the stand, Cohen didn’t seem like the jack@ss that other witnesses had described (with encouragement from the prosecution), and his testimony was largely confirmed by documents and other witnesses, again and again confirmed that trump was aware that the checks were being sent to reimburse Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels. And they fraudulently hid the payments.
More importantly, Cohen again and again confirmed that trump was aware that the checks were being sent to reimburse Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels.
trump didn’t create the payment scheme. trump didn’t write the fake invoices. But trump was aware of what was happening and encouraged the use of the false documents. That’s all it takes.
At the end of the testimony, prosecutors led Cohen though the post-election period and particularly into the time when the investigation from special counsel Robert Mueller resulted in his house and office being searched.
Don’t feel sorry for Cohen, considering his years of defending trump, his role in setting up schemes to hide trump’s affairs, and how everyone who ever met the man seems to describe him as a jerk. But as Cohen related how he was slowly forced into the wilderness—with more and more layers between himself and trump and promises that seemed both distant and empty—it was hard not to feel … something.
On the stand, Cohen didn’t seem like the jack@ss that other witnesses had described (with encouragement from the prosecution), and his testimony was largely confirmed by documents and other witnesses, again and again confirmed that trump was aware that the checks were being sent to reimburse Cohen’s payment to Stormy Daniels. And they fraudulently hid the payments.