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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Michael Cohen Takes the Stand Against Donald Trump

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The star witness in the New York hush-money trial finally testifies, saying Donald Trump's main concern about the Stormy Daniels story was how voters would react in the days before the 2016 election. But is Cohen a credible witness, and can he testify to the "second crime" that prosecutors need? Plus, voters go to the polls to pick Senate nominees in Maryland and West Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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The prosecution in the New York-Hush Money trial of Donald Trump nearest the culmination of its case

0:45.4

as the president's former fixer Michael Cohen takes the stand against his old boss.

0:50.5

Meantime, voters in West Virginia and Maryland go to the polls on a primary day

0:55.2

with particular consequences for this fall Senate races. Welcome I'm Kyle

1:00.5

Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist

1:06.4

Kim Strassal, and editorial board member, Manet Uguueh Barua. Prosecutors in the New York

1:12.2

trial of Donald Trump told the judge recently that it's possible they could rest their case this week turning things over to the defense after getting testimony from potentially their last big witness, that is Michael Cohen.

1:25.2

He is as a reminder the man who made the $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels in 2016, who was then reimbursed and then some by Donald Trump

1:35.7

throughout 2017, leading to the business records, the invoices and checks and so forth that

1:42.0

Manhattan District Attorney

1:43.2

Elvin Bragg says were criminally falsified.

1:47.1

Cohen was called to the stand yesterday in the Manhattan courtroom.

1:51.6

It's continuing today, just about to go into cross-examination

1:55.6

as we are taping this.

1:57.4

And Kim, the trial is not televised.

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