#MichaelCohen reads more text exchanges w/ #NationalEnquirer’s #DylanHoward.
Jurors have already heard a recording, secretly made by Cohen as he talked to #Trump about #KarenMcDougal, corroborating this part Cohen's testimony.
Cohen said that #Pecker had told him the agreement w/McDougal was “bulletproof." That is exactly the same word that Pecker told the #jury that he had used w/Cohen.
#Hoffinger asks how #Trump received the news about the agreement.
"Fantastic," #MichaelCohen says.
Members of Trump's entourage have been live-posting from court. Eric Trump, posted about Cohen's testimony: "I have never seen anything more rehearsed!"
Senator #JDVance of #Ohio, who is in contention to be Trump's running mate, posted that it's "absurd" to criticize Trump for falling asleep in court. Vance writes: "I'm 39 years old & I've been here for 26 minutes & I'm about to fall asleep"
Andrew Giuliani, another #Trump ally & the son of his fmr lawyer #RudyGiuliani, is also posting from the courtroom, calling #MichaelCohen a "serial liar" & smearing the Manhattan DA's office, which brought the case.
Cohen is asked how he communicated w/ #KeithDavidson, a lawyer for both #KarenMcDougal & #StormyDaniels, says "phone, email, text.”
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#MichaelCohen is now recalling David #Pecker applying pressure to get reimbursed for paying off #KarenMcDougal. "It was too much money for him to hide from the CEO of the parent company," he says. He adds that he had several conversations w/ #Trump about that fact. The jury is likely to again hear the recording that was played earlier.
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#Pecker "insisted" on being paid back, #MichaelCohen says. He even met w/Cohen at his favorite Italian restaurant. "He expressed his anger that I need to get this money back," Cohen says. Trump kept insisting he would "take care of it." But never did.
Cohen says Pecker intimated that he had known #Trump for years & had essentially compiled a dossier on him, which he would use if need be. Cohen worried that Pecker might release some very damaging stories about Trump.
#Pecker's mounting frustration about paying to kill stories on #Trump's behalf & not getting repaid is what leads to Pecker refusing to pay for #StormyDaniels story, & #MichaelCohen taking over as the funder of the #CatchAndKill operations.
Cohen testifies about recording #Trump directing him to pay David #Pecker back in cash — the jury has heard this recording.
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It fits w/ #MichaelCohen's narrative that he was often updating #Trump on the progress of the #KarenMcDougal #HushMoney deal - on the recording, Cohen only has to mention Pecker's name & it seems as if Trump knows that he's referring to that deal.
Cohen claims that this was the only conversation w/ Trump that he ever taped, & that he did it so that Pecker could hear that Trump planned to pay him back, thus retaining Pecker's loyalty.
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Importantly, New York has a "one-party consent" law as to recording conversations. If a single party consents to a recording, it is #legal.
Jurors are played, for the 2nd time, the recording that #MichaelCohen described.
Jurors read the transcript of the recording on screens as the audio plays.
Cohen addresses the payment to #Pecker, referring to the publisher as "our friend David." Court again hears #Trump ask about financing & then advising Cohen to "pay in cash."
Big picture:
#Trump currently has senior #elected officials, including a possible future VP nominee, sitting in the courtroom listening to a recording of him, as a candidate, talking w/his lawyer about paying for material from The #NationalEnquirer. Trump has completely got the party under his boot.
2 #Republican senators, a congresswoman & 2 state AGs are listening to a now-disbarred lawyer advising Trump on a #HushMoney payment.
#Hoffinger, the prosecutor asks #MichaelCohen specific questions about the recording.
Cohen says that when he insisted that David #Pecker be paid, he made reference to Pecker's dossier on #Trump. And he says that while he said "financing," he meant "funding," meaning he was asking how Pecker would be repaid for silencing #KarenMcDougal's story.
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#MichaelCohen says that the recording he made of himself talking to #Trump cuts off because a bank employee called him & he
"must have believed" the call was important.
But Cohen says he continued to speak to Trump about the #HushMoney deal w/ #KarenMcDougal after the recording ended.
This is another piece of #evidence that Trump's lawyers have sought to delve into, questioning why the call ended abruptly suggesting that Cohen may have manipulated evidence.
Michael Cohen testifies that he - & everybody - at the #TrumpOrganization spoke to #AllenWeisselberg about financial transactions. Weisselberg, currently in #jail, was involved in coordinating the repayments to Cohen after Cohen paid #HushMoney to #StormyDaniels.
Cohen is emphatic that Weisselberg was involved in every deal no matter the size.
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#MichaelCohen's testimony about #AllenWeisselberg's financial advice on the #KarenMcDougal deal explains why Cohen would go on to pay #StormyDaniels, borrowing against his home. He says Weisselberg told him not to go through the #TrumpOrganization -linking the payment to #Trump's company would defeat the purpose- but to come up w/other more creative ways to pay.
This will help prosecutors explain why Cohen made the #HushMoney payment in such a roundabout way.
#Trump seems to have paid attention to very little of #MichaelCohen's testimony so far. He spent the first hour or so sitting still at the defense table with his eyes closed. After the morning break he's been awake but reading through printouts as he often does - likely news clippings printed by his staff.
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Prosecution presents details of the financial transactions that #MichaelCohen originally planned to use to reimburse David #Pecker for the payment to #KarenMcDougal.
Cohen says that Pecker was not the one who was ultimately going to pay to silence the story. It was "Mr. Trump." &, as we look at his call history, he says that a 7-min call placed to Trump on 29 Sept, 2016 -a month before the election — was to inform #Trump that the McDougal matter was “being resolved."
#MichaelCohen says after all that, #Pecker called & told him that #Trump would not have to pay. Cohen said he looked forward to telling Trump this, because it "would make him very happy."
Cohen says Pecker's explanation was that the #KarenMcDougal deal had ended up being good for his co. But the jury heard from Pecker during his testimony, that he had spoken to his general counsel & decided that he did not want to be repaid - because he was worried about committing a #crime.
An incredible number of hours went into covering up #Trump's alleged affairs in 2016. #MicgaelCohen & the team at The #NationalEnquirer went to elaborate lengths & constantly communicated about how to keep #women quiet. Accounting departments were engaged. Front companies were created. Misleading invoices were produced.
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#MichaelCohen testifies about being in London when the #AccessHollywood tape came out shortly before the #election. He says he got an email from #SteveBannon, who was the CEO of the #Trump campaign at the time.
Prosecution displays an email exchange about the tape that was forwarded to him by Bannon. Top campaign ofcls including the press sec
#HopeHicks, the campaign manager #KellyanneConway & the deputy campaign manager #DavidBossie were also on the email.
Part of Prosecution’s purpose is to make clear that #MichaelCohen is who the campaign staff members went to when they needed to address an issue related to a #woman alleging sexual misconduct by #Trump.
Cohen says Trump described the language heard on the #AccessHollywood tape as "locker room talk," & that Trump suggested that descriptor came from his wife, #Melania.
🤯 if she was in on the spin, the argument trump was concerned about her is BS.
#MichaelCohen says #Trump directed him to reach out to his contacts in the news #media. And immediately, we see evidence of Cohen texting Chris Cuomo, then a CNN anchor.
The final text we see in this series is Cuomo telling Cohen that it will be "too late" if he waits until Tuesday to defend Trump on TV. Cohen was in London.
Cuomo says of Trump: "He is dying right now."
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This was one month before the 2016 election. The text exchange w/ Chris Cuomo highlights the urgent & critical - potentially fatal - nature of the release of the #AccessHollywood tape.
For context that weekend, Wikileaks released a trove of hacked emails from #HillaryClinton's campaign chairman's personal account, drowning out a lot of the coverage of the #Trump tape.
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The texts show the #AccessHollywood tape was seen as a big deal to #Trump's electoral viability.
Prosecutors say this is the heart of the Trump campaign's motive to pay off #StormyDaniels. The tape had put the campaign on its heels, which is why Cohen personally purchased Daniels’s story for $130k.
#MichaelCohen testifies he believed the AccessHollywood tape was "was going to be significantly impactful, especially w/women voters."
#MichaelCohen makes another reference to getting "credit" from #Trump, this time in connection w/ a #NationalEnquirer article that he got removed. This isn’t only about Cohen wanting head-pats, but also speaks to how close an eye Trump kept on his employees, & how quickly he’d admonish them when displeased.
At every step, the prosecutors are establishing that Cohen told Trump about every little thing he did for him — "to get credit."
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#StormyDaniels's name comes up for the first time, as #MichaelCohen is questioned about the #AccessHollywood tape.
"Catastrophic" is Cohen's description of the impact Daniels's story could have had on #Trump's 2016 campaign.
Cohen says he spoke directly to Trump about Daniels early on, after learning she was shopping her story. "Boss, can I speak to you," he says he asked him, before telling him what he'd found out.
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#MichaelCohen says #Trump told him not only that he knew her, but that he had met her at a golf tournament. Trump, Cohen says, told him that #StormyDaniels liked him & that women preferred him even over football stars, like those who were at the tournament.
Cohen says he asked Trump then whether he had had sex w/ Daniels. He says Trump did not answer him, but called Daniels "a beautiful woman."
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Texts between #MichaelCohen & #KeithDavidson, the fmr lawyer to #StormyDaniels & #KarenMcDougal, are displayed on the screen.
Cohen, goes through his texts w/ Davidson & #DylanHoward, editor of The #NationalEnquirer, taking the jurors through material they're familiar w/from when Davidson testified, but it's more corroboration.
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The language in these Cohen conversations is coded & very mob-like. The #HushMoney is described as a "business opportunity."
#MichaelCohen says that #Trump, upon learning that #StormyDaniels was shopping her story, was very angry w/Cohen, calling it a "total disaster" & saying "women are going to hate me." Cohen says he responded that he had no control over Daniels's story.
"Just take care of it," he says Trump told him.
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#MichaelCohen said that #Trump told him: "I thought you had this under control."
Cohen says Trump also said of #StormyDaniels's allegation: "Guys may think it’s cool, but this is going to be a disaster for the campaign."
Cohen says that Trump explicitly told him they needed to do whatever they could to suppress Daniels's story until at least after the #election, because it wouldn't matter at that point.
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#MichaelCohen also recalls asking #Trump how #Melania might take it. He describes Trump's reply as follows: "He goes, 'How long do you think I'll be on the market for? Not long. He wasn't thinking about Melania. This was all about the campaign."
Cohen's description of Trump expressing fear that the #StormyDaniels story could poison him w/female voters is important, but uncorroborated. It's the first time a witness has attributed concerns about the scandal hurting the election directly to Trump.
#MichaelCohen says that #Trump was "trying to push it past the election, which was upcoming." Others have testified that they suspected this was the reason the payment was delayed. Cohen is testifying that the delay came directly from Trump.
Cohen describes the details of the agreement w/ #StormyDaniels. He says that he suggested the clause that would penalize Daniels $1M every time she chose to tell her story. The clause, Cohen says, was meant "to ensure that she didn't speak."
After the lunch break, #Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, w/ #MichaelCohen on the verge of describing having made the #HushMoney payment to #StormyDaniels. She shows a series of emails w/ #KeithDavidson, who was Daniels's lawyer in 2016.
Davidson, who already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, & that he just wanted to be paid.
#MichaelCohen responded to #KeithDavidson that it was the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur.
"I used the holiday of Yom Kippur as a way of just once again trying to delay" the payment, Cohen says.
Davidson testified that was exactly what he thought Cohen was doing - & to try to push the issue to beyond the election when the story would no longer matter.
Cohen brings up another early trial witness, Gary Farro.
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Prosecutors show #MichaelCohen the same emails & bank paperwork they showed to Farro on the witness stand. Farro previously testified about Cohen’s urgency to open up an account for Essential Consultants LLC, which was ultimately used to pay the #HushMoney to #StormyDaniels.
We are heading into the part of Cohen’s testimony that is focused on the alleged falsification of business records.
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#MichaelCohen, reads emails he exchanged in 2016 w/ #KeithDavidson, #StormyDaniels's lawyer, says that the correspondence represented that “we were losing control over the settlement of this agreement in order to prevent” Daniels’s story from coming out. He says that loss of control was a “direct result of my failure to wire funds.” Reportedly there’s still anxiety in Cohen’s voice about that “failure,” nearly 8 years later.
#MichaelCohen says that he believed that at this point in the narrative, just weeks before the 2016 election, he could no longer delay making the payment to #StormyDaniels.
Cohen is shown a text message #Melania #Trump sent him on 18 Oct, 2016:
“Good morning Michael, can u pls call DT on his cell. Thanks.”
He replied: “Of course.”
The timestamps on the texts show that he responded to Melania’s message within 30 seconds.
This shows how attentive Cohen was to the #Trumps.
#MichaelCohen says he spoke w/ #Trump after this request from his wife. He says he called Trump using his #TrumpOrganization landline. That evening, Cohen says, he made an appearance on Wolf Blitzer’s show, in order to “respond to a series of topics that affected Mr. Trump & the campaign.” He says he told Trump he was going on CNN as a “surrogate” of the campaign to discuss Trump’s priorities. This was just a couple of days after the #AccessHollywood tape came out.
This ties #MichaelCohen to the #Trump campaign & addresses defense’s arg that Cohen was “freelancing,” on his own. Cohen says that he regularly received talking points from the campaign, including before the CNN appearance.
Cohen describes Trump telling him that his friends had advised him to just pay #StormyDaniels the #HushMoney, & reminded him that he was a billionaire. “Just do it,” Cohen recounts Trump saying.
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#MichaelCohen recalls that he & #AllenWeisselberg, spoke about possibly generating the $130k through a membership request or an event being held at a club.
Cohen is directly tying #Trump to the #HushMoney payment, corroborating the testimony of others, including #KeithDavidson & #HopeHicks, who said Cohen would never had made the payment w/o Trump's authorization. Cohen talks about Weisselberg helping him to think through how to make the payment.
#Trump, who was sleeping, wakes up, leans over, taps his lawyer Todd #Blanche & whispers something in his ear.
#MichaelCohen says he then decided that he would pay the money, & that #AllenWeisselberg said, "I'll make sure you get paid back." Cohen says he alerted Trump to that decision & that Trump was appreciative, saying "good, good." And he says that Trump, too, told him he'd be repaid.
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#MichaelCohen says #Trump “expressed to me, just do it. Meet up w/ #AllenWeisselberg, & figure it out. Allen & I spoke to Trump, I said I would front the money & he was appreciative.”
"I was doing everything that I could & more in order to protect my boss, which was something I had done for a long time," #MichaelCohen says. But he adds that he would not lay out $130k for a #HushMoney payment on someone else's behalf, indicating that he was expecting to be repaid.
This testimony echoes #HopeHicks's remarks that she didn't think #MichaelCohen would have done this on his own.
The testimony is critical because it links #Trump not only to the #HushMoney payment to #StormyDaniels, but also to the scheme to reimburse Cohen for fronting the money — & that is what forms the basis of the falsification of business records charges.
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#MichaelCohen says he spoke to #Trump before the LLC creation. “Everything required Mr. Trump's signoff" &, "I wanted the money back."
Cohen testifies about using a home equity line of credit to pay #StormyDaniels.
Cohen discusses a call between him & 2 reps of The #NationalEnquirer, David #Pecker & #DylanHoward. They discussed Daniels's plans to go to The Daily Mail w/her story, & Cohen says that it would be "catastrophic" for the campaign, further turning women against the candidate.
The jury sees a text from Howard to Cohen on 25 Oct, 2016, in which Howard says they need to get the deal done w/ #StormyDaniels or it would look “awfully bad" for everyone. #MichaelCohen testifies that they all understood the effect her story would have on #Trump's campaign if it came out so close to the election & on top of the #AccessHollywood tape. This is important contextual #evidence. The defense is arguing that Trump's motivation was to protect his family.
these texts - combined w/ #MichaelCohen's testimony - indicate that the motivations for the #HushMoney deal were to protect #Trump politically.
After Cohen decided to pay #StormyDaniels himself, we are seeing, he launched into a blitz of phone calls w/ both #KeithDavidson & David #Pecker. This is documentary evidence: & shows, w/ surprising ividness given that it is simply metadata, the frenzy that Cohen was experiencing as he sought to suppress the Daniels story.
Prosecutors have done a painstaking job of using hard #evidence like phone records, text msgs & emails to corroborate the Cohen’s testimony, knowing in advance that his credibility would come under assault on cross-examination.
One of the important things
Hoffinger did was to explain, thru #MichaelCohen, why there were no emails w/ #Trump: because Trump didn't believe in email or, at that time, texting.
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#Trump shakes his head & smirks when #MichaelCohen says he didn't mention Trump when setting up the bank account because he wanted to "protect him" from the transaction.
(#HopeHicks testified Trump told her essentially the same thing)
Prosecutors show an email Cohen sent #StormyDaniels’s lawyer, #KeithDavidson, showing that he had acquired the necessary funds.
Cohen says that he laid out the Daniels deal for Trump because "everything required Mr. Trump's sign-off."
Several times last week, prosecutors painted #Trump as a micromanager. They used custodial witnesses to read passages of his books that depicted him as a boss who distrusted his employees for a fear they will "rob you blind." This is a continuation of that theme.
#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, lingers on the back-&-forth between #MichaelCohen & #KeithDavidson ensuring that the wire transfer of Daniels's money & the NDA were in place.
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#MichaelCohen says he told #Trump “immediately" once he'd resolved the #StormyDaniels #HushMoney deal & says that he told Trump right away because he wanted to get "credit" for resolving the task.
Cohen describes arranging every last detail of the payment to Daniels. Prosecution is doing this to use the incredible amount of documentary evidence they have to corroborate Cohen.
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#MichaelCohen has linked #Trump directly to the scheme to reimburse him for the #StormyDaniels #HushMoney payment, which forms the basis for the falsification of business records charges. And he has said that Trump was personally concerned that Daniels's story, if it got out, could affect his chances w/ female voters, which speaks directly to the underlying election #conspiracy statute that elevates those charges from misdemeanors to #felonies.
Prosecution shows that #MichaelCohen had a 5-minute call w/ #Trump on 38 Oct, 2016.
Cohen says that on that call he told Trump that, having signed the NDA, the #StormyDaniels "matter is completely under control & locked down."
This testimony underscores again how important documentary evidence is to this case. Here - how frequently Trump & Cohen spoke - facts seen in phone records.
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The WSJ article about #KarenMcDougal from right before the election is shown on the screens in the courtroom.
#MichaelCohen says he contacted #HopeHicks & they spoke about how the campaign planned to respond. He says she shared a draft of the statement she planned to send, which is also shown onscreen.
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#MichaelCohen reads draft statement from #HopeHicks, which included a line about how this was simply an effort to stop the historic Trump movement. That statement is quite similar to what the #Trump campaign has said in response to most stories since.
Cohen sent Hicks back a draft, & said she should simply describe the allegations as untrue & depict them as an effort to distract from the FBI investigation into #HillaryClinton's email server.
Prosecution shows voluminous records of phone calls between #MichaelCohen & #HopeHicks after the article about #KarenMcDougal came out. If anything, these records make Hicks look as if she underplayed the amount that she was speaking to Cohen & his involvement in the campaign.
Next is one of Cohen's calls to #KeithDavidson in documentary evidence, (the lawyer for McDougal & #StormyDaniels) after the story about McDougal being paid off was published.
#MichaelCohen says that he suspected Davidson or people in his camp of leaking & that he was very angry. He also says that #Trump was angry.
This is a vivid picture - backed by numerous texts & calls — of what was happening inside the Trump campaign in the final 2 weeks of the 2016 campaign. Trump's inner circle was spending its time not thinking about an ad strategy for swing states but how to maintain the silence of Playboy Playmate #KarenMcDougal & porn star #StormyDaniels.
#MichaelCohen is talking about discussing w/ #HopeHicks the article revealing #KarenMcDougal's #HushMoney deal, which came out days before the election.
When Hicks testified, she acknowledged that it was *ironic* to be testifying about this exchange she had w/ Cohen, which focused on whether or not the McDougal story was being picked up by other news outlets, at a literal criminal trial that stemmed from the publication of this story & the one about #StormyDaniels.
#MichaelCohen testifies about #Trump winning the election. #Hoffinger asks Cohen if he still had a role at the #TrumpOrganization after Trump won.
Cohen says no, "because my service was no longer necessary." He says he turned down the role of "assistant general counsel" in the WH.
Hoffinger asks Cohen if he was disappointed that the job of chief of staff wasn't offered to him. Cohen says he didn't want it, but wanted his name to included in the conversation.
This is meant to inoculate him on cross, when #Trump's lawyer inevitably says that #MichaelCohen was simply disgruntled about not getting a job.
Cohen: "I would have liked to have been considered." He says it was
"solely for his ego."
When Cohen says he was offered the role of assistant general counsel, Trump looks at his lawyer and shakes his head.
Per Maggie Haberman (who would know) the bit about Cohen being discussed for a WH counsel job is accurate.
#MichaelCohen says he preferred being #Trump's personal atty & remaining in NY, doing consulting work. He describes how being Trump's lawyer opened "doors" to other clients. Trump's attys are going to harp on this, saying Cohen benefits personally from his association to Trump.
Hoffinger: “Did you think you could monetize" [off being Trump's lawyer]?
Cohen: "Absolutely”
Trump hates it when anyone other than Trump makes money off his name.
After #MichaelCohen describes wanting to be the personal lawyer to the new president, which he didn't get, he begins to describe not receiving a significant bonus. Prosecutors are leaning into the fact that Cohen was very angry & disgruntled in late 2016.
Like David #Pecker before him, Cohen was an ally who had the ability to hurt #Trump.
As prosecution moves toward the reimbursement of Cohen, it helps to show how angry he was.
Asked how he felt about the minimal bonus: "Angry. Very angry."
#MichaelCohen, describing his anger at seeing his bonus cut by two-thirds, almost sounds angry all over again. "I didn't expect more," he says of his bonus that year, 2016.
"But I certainly didn't expect less."
Cohen says he took his fury out on #AllenWeisselberg, #TrumpOrganization CFO, & that Weisselberg told him that he'd be taken care of after the holidays.
Trump briefly smiled, expressing pleasure, as Cohen described #Trump stiffing him on his bonus.
#MichaelCohen testifies about the point of this whole trial: the false business records.
Cohen describes his notes w/ #TrumpOrganization CFO #AllenWeisselberg, the notes are working out how to make it so that it appears he was being paid for another matter, & on how he would be reimbursed.
Prosecution again shows to the court Weisselberg's handwritten notes on the reimbursement to Cohen.
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