All is fair in love and testimony?
Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen was spotted holding a box of Valentine’s Day chocolates on Wednesday as he made his way to meet Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg ahead of the criminal showdown with Donald Trump over alleged hush money payments.
Trump’s ex-lawyer was pictured by DailyMail.com as he headed down the street with the heart-shaped chocolate box, possibly a gift for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg successfully convicted two of Trump’s companies on charges related to a criminal tax fraud scheme in December and is now set to take the former president to trial in March over payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Cohen took the stand at the civil fraud trial of Trump in November, during which he admitted to committing crimes on behalf of the former president.
He is expected to drop similar bombs during his upcoming testimony in the hush-money case, and has been spotted previously meeting with prosecutors. Cohen helped facility the deal with Daniels and paid her $130,000.
Michael Cohen clutched a box of Valentine’s Day chocolates on his way to meet Alvin Bragg ahead of Trump and Stormy Daniels ‘ hush-money trial
Trump’s ex-lawyer was pictured by DailyMail.com as he headed down the street with the heart-shaped chocolate box
He admitted to the New York Times in 2018 that he paid Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, $130,000 out of his own pocket in order to silence her, after she allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump.
He also admitted purchasing the rights to a negative story about Trump from tabloid The National Inquirer involving former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claimed she and Trump had an affair from 2006 until 2007.
Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about securing Russian government support for a planned Trump Tower in Moscow during the 2016 presidential election. He was then disbarred from practicing law in New York.
He admitted to making false statements to hinder US investigations into the matter and to help Trump.
Today in court, A judge threw out Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss the Stormy Daniels hush-money case and has set a trial date for March 25 in a blockbuster hearing in a New York court.
He scowled at the packed courtroom as he walked to the front and sat back in his chair as Judge Juan Merchan rejected his bid to toss the case.
As he entered the building surrounded by cops, Trump insisted ‘there is no case’ and said New York should be focusing on violent crimes and the surge of migrants rather than ‘made up crimes’.
He ripped into the ‘dirty’ and ‘crime-ridden’ Big Apple, claimed President Joe Biden is targeting him because he is ahead in the polls and insisted there is ‘no crime’ even ‘if I am guilty’.
Trump was also open about how he wants to delay the trial ahead of the general election and said this was the latest ‘interference’ plot by his opponents.
‘We want delays, obviously. I’m running for election again,’ he defiantly told reporters before walking into court.
The chocolates were presumably a gift for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
Cohen took the stand at the civil fraud trial of Trump in November, during which he admitted to committing crimes on behalf of the former president
Cohen is expected to drop bombs during his upcoming testimony in Trump’s hush-money case
Trump’s former personal lawyer revealed in November that he’s terrified that the ex-president will exact terrible revenge ‘on anyone who had done him wrong’ if he is re-elected.
Cohen, 57, told Good Morning Britain that he fears for both his safety and his life, and is currently considering leaving the US if Trump is made president again.
‘You don’t know Donald Trump. I do. Don’t listen to my words. Listen to his words. He will exact revenge on anyone who has done him wrong.
‘There’s a lot of people on that list. It’s not just me. It’s judges, it’s lawyers, it’s citizens. It’s prosecutors. It’s Congress members.
‘He will exact revenge on anyone and everyone that he’s capable of.’
‘I want him held accountable, but I have great concerns that if in fact Donald Trump is locked up in an institution, that he would sell or give away national security secrets for a bag of tuna or a book of stamps.
‘My bigger concern is the protection and safety of America.
‘So let them put him under a very serious home confinement situation. But to put him into an institution, remember, for four years, he was briefed every single day on national security issues.
Cohen helped facility the deal with Daniels and paid her $130,000
Bragg successfully convicted two of Trump’s companies on charges related to a criminal tax fraud scheme in December and is preparing to take him down again in the former president’s criminal case against adult film star Stormy Daniels
‘I care more about America than I do seeing Donald Trump behind bars.’
The sentences came after Cohen and Trump spent years duking it out in the press, after publicly falling out with each other.
Trump has repeatedly called Cohen a ‘felon,’ a ‘rat’ and a ‘liar’. Meanwhile, Cohen once claimed that if people wanted to get under the former president’s skin, ‘it’s not by saying he’s a narcissistic sociopath or that he’s definitely not 6-feet 3-inches tall and he’s not 215 pounds, you go after the wallet.’