It was a big day for Alvin Bragg and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as the prosecution called its star witness, Michael Cohen, to the stand to testify in the case against former President Donald Trump. Cohen, of course, served as Trump’s personal attorney and was a key figure in negotiating the non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels (through her then-attorney, Keith Davidson), arranging the payment to Daniels himself. It is Trump’s subsequent payments to Cohen, categorized as “legal expenses,” which the prosecution asserts were, in fact, reimbursement for the NDA payment and, thus, should have been categorized as a campaign expense because the true motivation for the arrangement was to benefit Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Allegedly.
So, after a somewhat eventful few days of testimony last week (including that of Daniels), the prosecution kicked off Monday…
