Michael Cohen - The African Mirror

Apr

2024

Trump’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen to be key witness in hush money criminal trial

MICHAEL Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump, is now poised to serve as a star prosecution witness in the former U.S. president's criminal trial on charges of covering up hush money paid to a porn star. Cohen's role at the first criminal trial ever of a U.S. president, which began on Monday in New York state court in Manhattan, marks the culmination of his 15-year arc from being the businessman-turned-politician's lawyer and "fixer" to an outspoken antagonist. "I'm the guy who would take a bullet for the president," Cohen told Vanity Fair in 2017. The case stems from Cohen's…

Apr

2024

By JOSEPH AX

Trump repeats attack on ex-lawyer on eve of trial despite gag order

WORLD

DONALD Trump once again attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen, potentially testing the limits of a gag order that bars him from making public statements about witnesses concerning their testimony in his upcoming criminal trial in New York. In a post on his Truth Social platform, the former president wrote, "Has disgraced attorney and felon Michael Cohen been prosecuted for LYING? Only TRUMP people get prosecuted by this Judge and these thugs!" Cohen is expected to be a key witness for the prosecution at the trial, which is scheduled to begin with jury selection on Monday and will be the first criminal trial ever of…

Nov

2023

By LUC COHEN and JACK QUEEN

Trump defiant at NY fraud trial, judge threatens to cut off testimony

WORLD

DONALD Trump complained of unfair treatment in defiant and rambling testimony on the witness stand at his New York civil business fraud trial, prompting the judge to threaten to cut his testimony short. Under questioning about his company's accounting practices, the former U.S. president repeatedly clashed with Judge Arthur Engoron, who is weighing whether to impose hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and other penalties that could hobble the real estate empire that vaulted Trump to prominence. Engoron warned Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 election, that he might remove him from the witness stand if…

Oct

2023

By JACK QUEEN and LUC COHEN

Donald Trump’s lawyer questions Michael Cohen’s credibility in civil fraud trial

WORLD

DONALD Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen faced pointed questions about his credibility from a lawyer representing his ex-boss as he testified against the former U.S. president in a civil fraud trial over his family real estate company's business practices. Cohen, who came face-to-face with Trump for the first time in five years on Tuesday, is undergoing cross-examination for his second straight day of testimony in a Manhattan courtroom. Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump "arbitrarily" inflated the value of the Trump Organization's real estate assets to secure favourable insurance premiums. Cohen said he doctored financial statements so the property values…

Oct

2023

By KANISHKA SINGH and KAREN FREIFELD

Trump files to dismiss $500 million lawsuit against his ex-lawyer

WORLD

FORMER U.S. President Donald Trump filed a notice to voluntarily dismiss his $500 million lawsuit against his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, a court filing showed. Trump had sued Cohen in April seeking at least $500 million in damages from his onetime loyal "fixer" after Cohen testified before a Manhattan grand jury that indicted Trump. "Plaintiff, President Donald J. Trump, by and through undersigned counsel, hereby gives notice that .... he is voluntarily dismissing this action without prejudice," Trump's legal team said in a court filing made in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Trump was scheduled to…

Sep

2020

By The African Mirror

ANC slams Trump as “divisive, mysogynistic and disrespectful”

NEWS

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER THE ANC, South Africa’s governing party, has angrily dismissed US President Donald Trump as divisive, misogynistic and disrespectful in response to reports that he made disparaging remarks about Nelson Mandela. According to a book written by Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, titled Disloyal: A Memoir, the US president said Mandela, who led South Africa through a difficult transition from apartheid to democracy, was no leader. Trump reportedly said Mandela “f…….d the whole country up. Now that’s a s…..t hole. F….Mandela. He was no leader.” The ANC said people from all over the world were appalled by insults…