The former president and his ex-lawyer found themselves face to face once again, with the latter testifying against the former during a civil fraud trial.
Michael Cohen arrives for former president Donald Trump's civil business fraud trial in New York on Tuesday. NEW YORK — For years, Michael Cohen and his former boss Donald Trump have lobbed insults at one another from afar, each man castigating the other in bitterly personal terms.
“I was tasked by Mr. Trump to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen said, with Trump sitting in court watching.against Trump, which accuses him and his business of drastically inflating the value of his real estate properties to gain better financial terms.Trump, who is a Republican candidate for president, does not face any prison time in the civil case, and he and his attorneys have denied any wrongdoing.
Trump has derided Cohen as a dishonest “rat,” while Cohen in turn has depicted Trump as a bigoted, lying “con man.” Until Tuesday’s testimony, which saw both men again in the same room, this dispute has been playing out in splenetic Cohen, a disbarred attorney, draw belly laughs from gallery watchers when he quipped “asked and answered” in response to Habba touching on subjects that were already covered. That phrase is used by judges to respond to attorney objections.
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