NEW YORK, United States– Donald Trump is expected to attend his New York civil fraud trial on Tuesday to face off with his former lawyer and confidant Michael Cohen.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he takes a break during his civil fraud trial in New York City on October 18, 2023. Former president Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud trial on October 17, 2023 and complained about a partial gag order imposed on him by a judge in a separate case.
Trump is not required to attend the proceedings, but he has showed up sporadically and used his appearances to portray himself as the victim of a Democratic Party plot to interfere with his 2024 presidential campaign. Cohen, who served as Trump's personal lawyer and fixer for years, earning him the nickname"The Pitbull," has been taunting the former president on X, formerly Twitter, ahead of his testimony.
It was Cohen's testimony before Congress in 2019 that sparked the investigation by the New York authorities into whether Trump artificially inflated his net worth.Cohen is also expected to be a star witness in a criminal case facing the former president in New York for allegedly paying election-eve hush money to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Cohen was sentenced in 2018 to three years in prison for crimes including the hush-money case and tax evasion, but was released after a little over a year and served the remainder of his sentence in home confinement. No reason was given for Trump dropping the suit, but Cohen, 57, noted that it came just days before the former president was scheduled to sit for a deposition.
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