After taking the stand, Cohen recalled Trump saying: "This was a disaster, a fucking disaster", adding: "Women will hate me." Cohen described Trump as angry at the possibility that Daniels, an adult film star, might come forward shortly after the Washington Post published a hot-mic recording from an Access Hollywood taping in which Trump bragged about groping women "by the pussy" without their consent.
Cohen is core to the case against Trump because he is, accused of shuttling $130,000 (£103,500) to Daniels days before the election in exchange for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump 10 years earlier. Cohen told jurors that he had kept Daniels' account under wraps in 2011, working with her then lawyer to remove a story about it that had been on a gossip site.
"He was really angry with me," Cohen recalled of Trump's reaction after he informed him about Daniels. Trump, he said, remarked: "I thought you had this under control? I thought you took care of this."
Prosecutors contend that Trump's repayment of Cohen in 2017 was criminal because he listed the reimbursements as legal expenses in financial documents. Cohen's testimony is crucial in establishing that Trump knew that the repayment scheme would be logged in the Trump Organization's books as "legal expense", and that the false entries were in violation of election law.
As he took the witness stand wearing a pale salmon tie, Cohen said he first met Trump through the former president's son Donald Jr, as he was moving into one of his properties, when the elder Trump asked him to fix an issue with the board at Trump World Tower.
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