A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on October 24, 2023.
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Trump spent the day trying to turn a fraud trial into a character contest. Cohen instead turned it into a bookkeeping trial, which is a lot less glamorous and a lot more dangerous for a guy whose whole brand is that he’s the best businessman in the room.
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Michael Cohen testified that Donald Trump directed him to inflate asset values to hit “whatever number” Trump wanted, putting the former president at the center of the fraud case in a way that is hard to spin away.