(16 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: PART MUST CREDIT ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 16 May 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Price, The Associated Press:
"Donald Trump’s attorneys have been questioning Michael Cohen on the witness stand Thursday. They’ve been trying to undercut Cohen as a witness for the prosecution, trying to portray him as an untrustworthy person, as someone who was spiteful about not being given a job in the White House. Cohen has maintained careful short answers as he’s been on the witness stand, trying to say that he did not want to work in the White House except as a personal attorney for Donald Trump. Most of the proceedings have been slow, methodical, and a little bit dry. But right before the court broke for lunch, Trump’s attorney had a fiery exchange with Michael Cohen where he undercut a key part of his testimony on Tuesday, questioning whether he actually spoke to Donald Trump about a payment to Stormy Daniels right before it was made. And suggesting that he may not have spoken to him at all but was instead was having a conversation with someone else about harassing phone calls that Cohen was receiving."
ASSOCIATED PRESS – MUST CREDIT ELIZABETH WILLIAMS
New York – 16 May 2024
2. Sketch, Michael Cohen on stand
3. Sketch, Congressional leaders seated in court
STORYLINE:
Prosecutors’ star witness in the hush money case against Donald Trump was back in the hot seat Thursday as defense lawyers tried to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president.
The trial resumed in Manhattan with potentially explosive defense cross-examination of Cohen, whose credibility could determine the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s fate in the case.
Cohen is prosecutors’ final witness — at least for now — as they try to prove Trump schemed to suppress a damaging story he feared would torpedo his 2016 presidential campaign, and then falsified business records to cover it up.
The trial is in its 18th day. The defense is not expected to call many witnesses.
Over two days on the witness stand, Cohen placed Trump directly at the center of the alleged scheme to stifle negative stories to fend off damage to his White House bid. Cohen told jurors that Trump promised to reimburse him for the money he fronted and was constantly updated about efforts to silence women who alleged sexual encounters with him. Trump denies the women’s claims.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts.
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