Watch live as Donald Trump returns to New York state court on Wednesday 25 October as the former US president’s lawyer and fixer testifies against him in a civil fraud case.
On his first day on the witness stand in his former employer’s blockbuster fraud trial, Mr Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen ended his testimony with a heated exchange with attorneys determined to undermine him.
Monday ended with Trump attorney Alina Habba cross-examining the one-time Trump Organization insider, and their showdown resumes today.
Minutes into his testimony, Mr Cohen got to the heart of the case: The former president allegedly instructed him to craft fraudulent financial documents around an “arbitrarily elected” value of his assets and net worth.
Those so-called statements of financial condition spanning several years are central to a civil fraud trial stemming from a lawsuit that accuses Mr Trump of defrauding banks and insurers by grossly overvaluing assets and exaggerating his net worth.
He returns to the witness stand on 25 October.
