{"id":31230,"date":"2024-05-13T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=31230"},"modified":"2024-05-13T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:03:36","slug":"michael-cohen-testifies-against-trump-in-new-york-criminal-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/05\/13\/michael-cohen-testifies-against-trump-in-new-york-criminal-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Cohen Testifies Against Trump in New York Criminal Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Trump&#8217;s former lawyer, took the witness stand on Monday, revealing that he had frequent communication with Trump before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cohen&#8217;s testimony is crucial to the case, as he is alleged to have facilitated hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, a pornography actress, on behalf of Trump. Prosecutors argue that Trump falsified business records related to these payments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Appearing visibly nervous, Cohen recounted his family history and his employment history with Trump, disclosing that he had a salary of approximately $525,000 per year during the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have been preparing for Cohen&#8217;s testimony for weeks, indicating its significance in the case. Last week, they also called Stormy Daniels to the stand as part of their case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Trump&#8217;s former lawyer, took the witness stand on Monday, revealing that he had frequent communication with Trump before the 2016 election. &nbsp; Cohen&#8217;s testimony is crucial to the case, as he is alleged to have facilitated hush money payments to Stormy Daniels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":31231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31232,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31230\/revisions\/31232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}