David Pecker testified that he believes Donald Trump also had knowledge of the catch and kill contract for the former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
After court wrapped up for the day, Trump stepped to the microphone outside the courthouse and dug his own grave.
Trump and his lawyers are now trying to get the judge to block ex-White House staffers from testifying against him in Manhattan.
Prosecutors are seeking to have Trump held in contempt for violating the gag order by attacking witnesses Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen.
Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, said that there is no doubt that Trump will be incarcerated if he is convicted in Manhattan.
Trump is coming unglued as his criminal trial starts on Monday, as he violated the gag order by attacking witness Michael Cohen.
The potential witness list for the prosecution in the Trump hush money case is a total nightmare for the defendant ex-president.
Trump has been slapped with a gag order in the Manhattan hush money/election interference case that will stop him talking about everyone but the judge and prosecutor.
Michael Cohen’s testimony got so far under Trump’s skin that he is lashing out at his favorites in the media and using imaginary words.
Trump’s lawyers are trying to control him, but Michael Cohen’s testimony is causing Trump to meltdown in Manhattan.
Donald Trump is worried that the discovery phase of the lawsuit he filed against Michael Cohen might incriminate him in other ongoing criminal matters he currently faces.
Michael Cohen knows Trump and he described the former president’s current behavior as panic and fear.
Michael Cohen called on the DOJ not to worry about looking political and to prosecute Trump for tax evasion.
No matter what room he’s in, Donald Trump always assumes he the smart person in it. When he was in the White House he frequently ignored the ideas of more experienced and educated advisers. And whether he realizes it or not, Trump is now in the biggest legal fight of his life. Michael Cohen, a…
While a fair amount of his business career has taken place in court rooms, Donald Trump has spent the last 4 years immune from prosecution. That protection, though is now over and Trump has to face the music in New York and Georgia. Things are moving faster in Trump’s hometown. The state of New York…
Michael Cohen was willing to do anything for his former comment, Donald Trump. The former lawyer went to jail, essentially for protecting his former client. And now that Trump is set to face consequences for his actions, Cohen has been taking a bit of a victory lap. And during a Wednesday appearance on Ari Melber‘s…
Right now, it feels like Georgia and New York are in a race to indict Donald Trump first. New York’s prosecution team has been talking to plenty of people within Trump’s orbit about his behavior. Michael Cohen went to jail over deeds he performed on behalf of Trump. And the former lawyer is now eager…
Thanks to a ban from Twitter, Americans are hearing so much less from Donald Trump these days. The former president seems to occupy most of his days playing golf and preparing for his upcoming court cases. And both New York and Georgia are building out strong cases against Trump. The New York case looks further…
Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen said that things don’t look good for the former president who should look into getting measured for a custom jumpsuit.
The congresspeople and senators who are helping Donald Trump fight the election results know the president lost. They also know that there is no pathway forward. For the majority of them, this is being done with an eye towards their political futures. Donald Trump, though, has not been acting like a man that has come…
There are clearly many things that Donald Trump doesn’t like about being the president. He doesn’t like being briefed, or working weekends, or being criticized in any way. One thing Trump clearly loves, though, is the power to pardon people. And he’s taken advantage of that pardon power throughout his term. The people he absolves…
Hopefully our now soon-to-be former President, also known as Individual-1 in a court filing against Trump’s former fixer/lawyer Michael Cohen by the Southern District of New York in 2018, will soon enough find himself housed in a prison and clothed in an orange jumpsuit. Trump was accused of a crime in this filing and has…
Michael Cohen believes Donald Trump doesn’t want to release his tax returns because he could end up owing large amounts in back taxes and penalties once forensic accountants take a look at them. The President’s former lawyer and fixer spoke to CNN about Trump’s taxes on Wednesday. He suggested they would show Trump isn’t as…
Two people who once worked closely with Donald Trump have weighed in on reports that he mocked dead troops and those missing in action. John Bolton and Michael Cohen both made remarks on Friday. Bolton, the former National Security Advisor, gave an interview Friday morning. He claimed he hadn’t heard the President saying the exact…
Michael Cohen has recorded a series of ads criticizing Donald Trump that will air during this week’s Republican National Convention. They will paint the President as a liar. Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, announced on Twitter that the ads would air during the Republican Party’s key 2020 election event, where the President is expected…
It was a week of contrasts between the democracy we have and the tyranny Donald Trump is trying to build on the ash heap of what use to be America. Enter Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, representing the America we are, where people seek a more perfect Union. All people regardless of skin color, citizenship,…
Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen connects the President Of The United States to “golden showers” at a Las Vegas club.
House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has released Michael Cohen’s testimony and evidence that nail Trump for obstruction of justice.
Attorneys for Michael Cohen have given documents to Congress which accuse Donald Trump and his team of lawyers of directing Cohen to lie to Congress about when negotiations ended for a major real estate deal in Moscow. The new information, reported today in Buzzfeed News, adds another layer to the Cohen controversy and makes it…
New York Prosecutors on Tuesday unsealed copies of search warrants and other documents obtained in last April’s FBI raid on former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room. “JUST IN: Partially redacted search warrant materials pertaining to the April 2018 raid on Michael Cohen’s home, office and hotel room have been released†JUST…
Two of the country’s top experts on constitutional law have just published a new analysis describing new “high crimes and misdemeanors†for which Donald Trump can legitimately be impeached. They also explained why these potential offenses committed by Trump should be immediately investigated by the Justice Department (DOJ). The experts are renowned Harvard Law professor…
A new Gallup poll released Thursday shows Donald Trump with just a 39 percent approval rating, marking the first time in months that it has dropped below 40 percent. It also shows that his approval has dropped 4 points in a month. His approval rating was 43 percent in the second half of February. The president’s…
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings wants to talk to two new attorneys in the Michael Cohen/Stormy Daniels hush money probe. The lawyers — Sheri Dillon and Stefan Passantino — were formerly employed in the White House and responsible for the president’s ethics and financial disclosures. Their testimony could be critical to figuring out whether…
If you thought Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony was damaging to Donald Trump, wait until you hear what former felon and Russian mobster Felix Sater has to say. Sater has been a close friend and business associate of Donald Trump’s in New York City for many years. They worked together on the infamous Trump Soho project…
Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson was on MSNBC to discuss the bombshell New York Times expose on the different checks Donald Trump used to reimburse Michael Cohen for hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. The Times reported that there were 11 checks in total paid to Cohen, and these prove that Trump…
In his testimony before the House Oversight Committee last Wednesday Michael Cohen said he has “never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from Mr. Trump.” However, that testimony did not apply to his lawyer. The Wall Street Journal is now reporting that an attorney representing Cohen broached the idea of a pardon for…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski told Donald Trump’s GOP enablers this morning that they should heed Michael Cohen’s warning about serving as “fixers†for the leader of their party. In his congressional testimony on Wednesday, the former Trump Organization attorney warned Trump’s supporters they would end up in the same position as he was in…
Ben Stiller returned to play Michael Cohen in last night’s “Saturday Night Live†cold open and he was joined by another SNL alum Bill Hader, who played right-wing congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio. To no one’s surprise, the opening skit addressed the congressional testimony last week of Donald Trump’s former “fixer†and attorney. “Thank you…
Michael Cohen’s testimony before congressional investigators last week resulted in a new line of inquiry, The Washington Post has reported. Lawmakers with the House and Senate Intelligence Committees reportedly questioned Donald Trump‘s former attorney about whether he and high-level members of the Trump administration had discussed a potential presidential pardon. Anonymous sources reportedly told The…
Appearing on the MSNBC show AM Joy, legal analyst and Above the Law editor Elie Mystal said that Donald Trump is desperate to win re-election in 2020 because if he doesn’t, he will likely be arrested immediately by prosecutors representing the Southern District of New York (SDNY). Speaking with host Joy Reid, Mystal gave a highly…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Thursday said that she and other people in the House Oversight Committee hearing room “gasped” when Rep. Mark Meadows (R, NC)  pointed to a black Trump administration official as evidence that Donald Trump is not racist. ““I think if we want to talk about race in this country, that’s not the…
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough slammed House Republicans for “shamelessly†covering for President Donald Trump as his former attorney Michael Cohen set forth a nicely detailed road map of his alleged crimes. Scarborough other panelists today agreed that GOP lawmakers exhibited absolutely no curiosity about Trump’s misbehavior and malfeasance during Cohen’s testimony in front of…
President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un concluded their second summit in Vietnam ended with no joint agreement after Kim insisted sanctions be lifted on his country. The highly touted and much publicized meeting thus ended in a stalemate. Trump said that negotiators from the United States walked away from the meetings after…
Michael Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about Donald Trump’s business dealings in Russia — and he will tell lawmakers how the president directed him to break the law. The former Trump Organization attorney will testify Wednesday before the House Oversight Committee, and Cohen said in a prepared statement that the president told…
By Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Michael Cohen, the former “fixer” and personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, will testify on Wednesday that Trump knew ahead of time about a leak of emails that would hurt his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. Cohen will also tell Congress that Trump directed…
MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch today told the Morning Joe panel today that there were “two stunning lies†in Donald Trump’s early morning Twitter attack against his former attorney Michael Cohen. Deutsch, who is from New York, has been friends with Cohen for many years. He has also known Donald Trump for many years, and knows…
By Nathan Layne and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump‘s former personal attorney Michael Cohen plans to tell U.S. lawmakers this week that Trump asked him several times about a proposed skyscraper project in Moscow long after he secured the Republican presidential nomination, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. Cohen’s…
Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, is now scheduled to testify before Congress next week. And it is causing panic in the White House as new details emerge about Cohen’s planned testimony. It appears that Cohen will be on live television destroying Donald Trump as he reveals previously secret information about Trump’s sexual…
Lanny Davis, the attorney representing former Trump “fixer†Michael Cohen, has told ABC News that his client is ready to reveal what he describes as “chilling†details about his personal experiences with President Donald Trump. During an interview with ABC’s “The Investigation†podcast, Davis said that Cohen was willing to do Trump’s “dirty deeds†when…
BuzzFeed News doubled down yesterday on its defense of its bombshell report from Thursday night which said that President Trump ordered his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. BuzzFeed’s report elicited a rare response from special counsel Robert Mueller’s office which on Friday…
Michael Cohen‘s former lawyer, Lanny Davis, said Sunday that the “incessant attacks” President Trump has leveled against his former client are because Trump views Cohen as the “greatest threat to his presidency.” “This pattern of incessant attacks on my client and his family show what the American people have already witnessed, that Donald Trump sees…
A former GOP member of Congress has predicted that Donald Trump will leave the White House “soon†in a “spectacular political crash-and-burn†set to take place during 2019. John LeBoutillier, who was a Republican representative in New York City back in the 1980’s, made his prediction in a column for The Hill. LeBoutillier wrote in…
Donald Trump’s former personal attorney/fixer Michael Cohen has denied a report that he took a trip to Prague in the summer 2016 to meet with Russian officials. The alleged trip by Cohen was outlined in the infamous Steele Dossier and has been offered as proof that Cohen was helping to facilitate an illegal conspiracy between…
Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating President Trump’s inaugural committee for misspending donated funds from the record $107 million it received. Investigators are examining financial wrongdoing, and are scrutinizing donors who may have written sizable checks in exchange for access to the Trump administration, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Many Different Crimes…
George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, is continuing his attacks on President Donald Trump, which apparently has caused some marital friction. In addition to trashing dubious legal claims by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani on Twitter Friday, Conway also lambasted the president in a Washington Post editorial that he co-wrote with former…
Former Trump attorney and “fixer†Michael Cohen dropped some new bombshells on Friday when he told ABC News that Donald Trump knew that it was “wrong†when he paid hush money to two former mistresses during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also said that Trump knew about Donald Trump, Jr. and other top campaign officials…
The lawyer for Michael Cohen, who for 20 years was President Trump‘s personal lawyer, said that the president knew ahead of time that Cohen was planning to perjure himself while testifying to Congress. Lanny Davis, an attorney who has represented Cohen in his ongoing legal battles with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District…
Trump’s former personal lawyer and Mr Fix It has taken a most inglorious fall from grace, pleading guilty to crimes he committed for Trump without getting a plea deal in advance, while Trump remains unscathed.
Donald Trump’s buddy Vladimir Putin is not helping him out very much these days. Over the weekend the Russian president pointed out that Trump canceled their G-20 meeting due to his worsening “domestic†scandals. Trump had claimed that he cancelled the meeting because of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, which is clearly not true. Putin could…
Special Counsel Bob Mueller has slowly been disclosing a very broad and extensive pattern of deception by Donald Trump’s aides and associates, according to the Associated Press. Seemingly everyone involved tried to cover up Russian contacts during the 2016 campaign and transition period, the AP reported. Most observers have said that they have never seen…
Michael Cohen tossed another bomb at Donald Trump late Friday night by publicly disclosing that he told his former boss, who was then a presidential candidate, about a phone call he made to Moscow in 2016. Cohen said he called the Kremlin to request help from the Russian government in building a Trump Tower in…
According to the Washington Post, President Donald Trump is now “a major subject of interest†in the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller. As a “subject of the investigation,†Trump now has his own legal code name: “Individual 1.†The term “subject of an investigation†has a well-defined meaning. According to the DOJ Handbook, a…
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, has reached a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. According to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, Cohen is expected to plead guilty to lying to congressional committees. “Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning.  Expected to enter guilty plea for…
Donald Trump played a key role in the hush money schemes that led to Michael Cohen pleading guilty to federal campaign finance crimes in August, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Trump has always maintained that he did not have extramarital affairs with adult-film actress Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen…
Buzzfeed reported yesterday that the federal investigation into President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is still active, and the grand jury involved in the Cohen investigation is still at work. This information was confirmed by federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday in a court filing opposing the New York Times’ request to make…
One thing Donald Trump has done is to normalize craziness in the White House. We have come to expect some type of off-the-wall statement or behavior on the part of the president nearly every day. We are no longer surprised or shocked at scandals, because they have become the norm during Trump’s presidency. For example,…
The shell company established by Michael Cohen has agreed to tear up the 2016 “hush money†agreement with Trump mistress Stormy Daniels — and demanded that she repay the $130,000 payment she received, according to CNN. They also reported that Cohen’s lawyer claims that this latest action will “effectively put an end to the lawsuits 
Throughout his career — as he has built a global real estate and branding empire — Donald Trump has had one guiding principle: keep it private. He has succeeded in doing this for four decades, through multiple bankruptcies and while borrowing literally billions of dollars. He has never had to disclose his personal or business…
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Trump Organization executive Alan Weisselberg “was granted immunity by federal prosecutors for providing information about Michael Cohen in the criminal investigation into hush-money payments for two women during the 2016 presidential campaign.†As Chief Financial Officer for all of Trump’s business and nonprofit entities, Weisselberg literally knows everything…
Federal prosecutors have given immunity to National Enquirer chief executive David Pecker in the Michael Cohen case, as the net is closing tighter around Donald Trump.
Last night Lanny Davis made an announcement that sent shockwaves throughout Trump World: Michael Cohen was with Donald Trump when they met with Don Jr. to plan the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian operatives, and he’s willing to talk to Mueller about it. Davis confirmed during an appearance on CNN that Michael Cohen…
Michael Cohen is lucky, because as he faces the biggest legal challenge of his life and takes on the President of the United States there is someone available to help him who has been through very similar experiences: John Dean. Dean of course was the White House counsel during the administration of Richard Nixon and…
What’s bad for Donald Trump is bad for the Republican Party, and yesterday was a horrible day for Donald Trump. Republicans are suffering because they have allowed Trump to do a hostile takeover of their party. And now, like it or not, when people think of the Grand Old Party they think of Trump. This…
Yesterday was a day that will be remembered in the history books as one of the worst days ever for any President of the United States. The Paul Manafort guilty verdicts followed by the Michael Cohen plea deal were definitely bad news for Donald Trump. Even as Trump and his supporters deny he did anything…
Rachel Maddow added another wrinkle to Trump’s terrible day by pointing out that the Trump Organization was implicated in Michael Cohen’s crimes, which means that Trump’s company may be facing indictment.
Trump’s bad day gets even worse as Omarosa dropped a new tape and told Chris Matthews that Trump asked Michael Cohen to protect him from his wife.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, used the Paul Manafort conviction and Michael Cohen guilty plea as proof that the Mueller investigation is not a witch hunt.
Former congresswoman and attorney Liz Holtzman said that the double whammy of the Manafort verdict and the Cohen cooperation means that the noose is tightening and Donald Trump is heavy duty trouble.
Michael Avenatti told MSNBC that it is a one hundred percent certainty that Michael Cohen is going to provide prosecutors with damaging information on Trump crimes.
It is being reported that Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen could plead guilty to tax fraud and bank fraud within hours, as his potential plea deal is bad news for Trump.
The parallels between Watergate and the Russia scandal are growing as Michael Cohen’s lawyer, Lanny Davis, is getting advice from the man who brought down Nixon, John Dean.
Trump is going to get more bad news as his former lawyer, Michael Cohen could be criminally charged by the end of August.
We haven’t heard from Michael Cohen or his attorney lately, and in many ways the silence has been deafening. The former Trump attorney has not been on Twitter or on television or anywhere else in the media for weeks. It is probably not a coincidence that Cohen seems to have gone underground at the same…
Yesterday’s headline on ABC News read: “Joint defense with Cohen over; experts hired to analyze Trump-Cohen tape: Giuliani.†This may not have seemed like a very important news item but it actually is confirmation that Michael Cohen is cutting a plea deal with prosecutors and is ready to now “flip†on his former boss Donald…
After taking a day off for some unexplained reason, President Donald Trump was back on Twitter Sunday morning addressing many of his favorite topics, including:  Attacking his former personal attorney Michael Cohen, Defending his son, Donald Trump, Jr., Threatening to shut down down the government, Demanding Congress give in to his demands on immigration, and Repeating…
CNN host Anderson Cooper was asking for trouble when he asked two feisty lawyers onto his show at the same time last night.  In a “stormy†interview with Stormy Daniel’s attorney Michael Avenatti and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz Cooper struggled to keep the discussion under control. Both lawyers made it appear that their main…
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer on Friday strongly criticized his current attorney, saying Rudy Giuliani comments on television have harmed the president’s case. The attorney, Jay Goldberg, who represented Trump in his two divorces, said on CNN that Giuliani is “immeasurably†damaging Trump’s case with conflicting statements concerning the truthfulness of Trump’s former personal lawyer…
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) delivered the message to Michael Cohen that now is the time to cooperate with Robert Mueller. Video: Rep. Swalwell said on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House: We were as thorough as you could be on the democratic side without having subpoena power and without having Republicans across the table from us on…
President Donald Trump on Friday angrily attacked his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who yesterday said he is ready to testify to special counsel Robert Mueller that the president had direct knowledge of the critical 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian agents. “And so the Fake News doesn’t waste my time with dumb questions, NO,….I did…
Rachel Maddow confirmed CNN’s reporting that Michael Cohen said that Trump signed off on infamous Trump Tower meeting with the Russians and that Cohen is willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller what he knows.
Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg has been subpoenaed to testify in the federal investigation into Michael Cohen, as Trump’s former lawyer is burning it all to the ground.
Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti  posted on Twitter early Thursday morning a statement saying that he has new evidence proving Donald Trump and his attorney/fixer Michael Cohen paid off multiple women in 2016 during the presidential campaign, and they were concerned about one of them being pregnant. According to Avenatti, “Donald Trump conspired with Michael…
People close to Michael Cohen say that he felt mistreated by Trump in the past, and now he is ready to unload what he knows to prosecutors.
Former US Attorney Harry Litman said that the Trump/Cohen tape discussing a payout to Karen McDougal could provide evidence of campaign finance violations, bank fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy crimes committed by Trump.
Former personal attorney for President Donald J. Trump Michael Cohen made a rare appearance on Twitter on Monday. In an intriguing post he offered what was certainly an indirect criticism of his former boss’s performance at the Helsinki press conference Trump held with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Michael Cohen trolls Trump over Russia summit https://t.co/H2QMrOXhSm…
Friday’s very detailed indictment of twelve Russian government military officers sent notice to the world that Robert Mueller and his team know everything about what went on between Donald Trump and the Russians who supported him. But the big news wasn’t just the fact that Russians were indicted, it was that Mueller has hard evidence…
Michael Cohen and Donald Trump got some really bad legal news yesterday that has been underplayed because of the massive amounts of publicity surrounding the new Mueller indictments and Trump’s trip to Europe. Yesterday the judge overseeing the Cohen case in New York released 884,000 more documents to federal prosecutors according to the New York…
Yesterday it was announced that President Donald Trump’s former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen has hired Lanny Davis, a friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton, to help deal with the federal investigation into Cohen’s businesses and finances. “Like most of America, I have been following the matter regarding Michael Cohen with great interest,” Davis said…
Former Donald Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen shook up the White House and most of America with his revelations in an ABC News interview over the weekend that he was no longer loyal to the president and that he was likely to cooperate with federal investigators in order to protect his family. In response, and…
Former personal attorney for Donald J. Trump Michael Cohen gave an exclusive interview to ABC News and when asked if he would protect the president Cohen said that his family, not the president, comes first. Previously Cohen had always said he would be loyal to the president once said he was “the guy who would…
