Michael Cohen pro­vides strongest boost to Bragg’s case so far

Michael Cohen offered the strongest evi­dence to date link­ing for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump to the charges he is fac­ing in New York, serv­ing as either a bless­ing or a curse to pros­e­cu­tors, depend­ing on whether the jury finds their trou­bled star wit­ness cred­i­ble.
Cohen, Trump’s for­mer attor­ney, tes­ti­fied Mon­day dur­ing Trump’s tri­al that the for­mer pres­i­dent knew every step of the way how Cohen was work­ing to pre­vent porn star Stormy Daniels from going pub­lic right before the 2016 elec­tion with a claim that she had a sex­u­al encounter with Trump.
Pros­e­cu­tors pre­sent­ed evi­dence that Cohen had two phone calls with Trump right before Cohen went to the bank to use a shell com­pa­ny to wire Daniels’s attor­ney $130,000 as part of a set­tle­ment agree­ment.
“I want­ed to ensure that, once again, he …