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Attorneys for former President Donald Trump sparred with the ex-president’s former lawyer Michael Cohen as he testified for a second day Wednesday in the ongoing fraud trial against the former president and his company, seeking to discredit Cohen’s testimony—including by accusing him of perjury—after he implicated Trump in the allegedly fraudulent scheme to change the stated value of assets to give Trump the net worth figure he desired.Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, in which he claimed Trump directed him and then-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to change the valuation of assets on financial documents in order to reach whatever arbitrary net worth Trump wanted for himself.him after he said he was not actually guilty of tax evasion despite pleading guilty to it in 2018 and getting him to acknowledge it was the first time he had said that in open court.
Later in Habba’s cross-examination, Cohen also said he was lying under oath in congressional testimony he gave in 2019, in which he denied any recollection of Trump ever asking him or Weisselberg to inflate numbers for financial statements. Attorneys for the former president also brought up the fact that New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the case, had not named Cohen a defendant, asking him if he believed that was because the attorney general did not believe his claims that he committed fraud on Trump’s behalf .Cohen of “cashing in” on his relationship with Trump, with him admitting he has a financial incentive to criticize the former president.“I have answered every question you want.
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