Michael Cohen

President Donald Trump accused his former lawyer Michael Cohen of perjury on Friday, saying a manuscript Cohen wrote last year that complemented Trump contradicted his scathing testimony to Congress this week.

Former President Donald Trump has dropped his $500 million lawsuit against his former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who is now a key witness in a criminal case against him. Trump accused Cohen of spreading falsehoods and causing reputational harm by publicly discussing hush-money payments made to women during Trump's 2016 campaign.

Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors on Monday that the Republican presidential candidate personally approved a hush money payment to bury a porn star's story of a sexual encounter before it could derail his 2016 campaign."Just do it," Cohen said Trump told him, instructing him to figure out the best way of paying adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about an alleged 2006 liaison, which he denies.

Michael Cohen's memoir about President Donald Trump will be released on September 8 by Skyhorse Publishing, which confirmed the news on August 13 to The Associated Press. The book is called 'Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump'.

Recently, Cohen was interrupted on a live TikTok session while interacting with followers on social media. During his attempt to start a conversation at 10 pm, some users humorously placed a 'turkey' face on his screen, followed by other emojis. The video has been shared widely on social media platforms X and Instagram. On X, the video has reached over 201k views, and on Instagram, it has gained 402 likes, with many users commenting on it.

US President Donald Trump broke a two month silence Thursday about allegations he slept with a porn star, insisting that he did not pay her $130,000 hush money.

Michael Cohen, once Donald Trump's personal lawyer and "fixer," is set to be a key witness against the former US president in a criminal trial related to hush payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels. Cohen, who worked for Trump's real estate company, said the former president directed him to pay Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an encounter she had with Trump in 2006 before the 2016 US presidential election.

Michael Cohen faced a methodical cross-examination by Donald Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, on Tuesday. The lawyer aimed to cast doubt on Cohen's previous testimony, in which he claimed to have been involved in a hush money scheme designed to aid the former president in swaying the 2016 election. Blanche interrogated Cohen for approximately two hours during Trump's hush money trial, concentrating on the transformation of his decade-long loyalty to Trump into bitterness.

Michael Cohen, who implicated the president in federal crimes and said Trump would do anything to win, said he offered his bombshell alarm as someone who knows the president well. "Given my experience working for Mr Trump, I fear that if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power," he said.

Cohen's trial testimony reveals Trump's involvement in a hush-money scheme to silence damaging stories during the 2016 campaign, potentially increasing Trump's legal risks. The case unfolds with intense scrutiny of Cohen's credibility and Trump's direct connection to the payments. Cohen is by far the prosecution's most important witness. "We need to stop this from getting out," Cohen quoted Trump as telling him in reference to porn actor Stormy Daniels' account of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.

Donald Trump's company and its longtime finance chief were charged Thursday in what a prosecutor called a "sweeping and audacious" tax fraud scheme.

The New York state grand jury investigating Donald Trump on hush money payments has been put on hold, with jurors potentially having to hear at least one more witness. Former federal prosecutor Harry Sandick said the DA’s office may require more time to discern whether Trump’s actions amount to a crime.

Donald Trump, the ex-president of US and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, has been indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star, becoming the first former US president to face criminal charges. Trump is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and court appearance in Manhattan on Tuesday.

Questioned by Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche, Cohen acknowledged stealing from the Trump Organization by including a reimbursement to a technology company in his bonus package and pocketing most of the money. "So you stole from the Trump Organization, right?" Blanche asked. "Yes sir," Cohen, 57, testified.