Cohen, a former Trump lawyer and onetime loyal ally, is testifying against the former president in a civil trial that threatens Trump's business empire.
Michael Cohen arrives for former President Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court on Tuesday.Michael Cohen, the onetime lawyer and fixer for former President Donald Trump, came face to face with his former boss in a New York courtroom on Tuesday.
Cohen is at the New York County Supreme Court to testify in a civil trial alleging the former president inflated the value of his assets to land better business deals and tax benefits.During his testimony, Cohen said that Trump had asked him to"increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected.","was to reverse engineer the very different asset classes, increase those assets in order to achieve the numbers" Trump had asked for.
As the court broke for lunch, Trump, who is not required to be present for the trial but arrived within several minutes of Cohen on Tuesday morning, told reporters he is"not worried" about Cohen's testimony, arguing Cohen is not a credible witness due to his past lying under oath.
concluding that Trump and his associates — including his sons Eric and Donald Jr. — did inflate the value of their assets . At stake in the trial is whether or not Trump conspired to commit fraud on purpose and how much he will owe the state in penalties if so.Ximena Bustillo is a multi-platform reporter at NPR covering politics out of the White House and Congress on air and in print.
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