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Madeline Halpert Kayla Epstein
Reporting from courtReporting from court
The evidence we’re seeing now is crucial to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office’s case because it connects Trump directly to the hush-money payment and a reimbursement to former Trump attorney Michael Cohen.
Remember that hush-money payments themselves are not illegal. But the DA’s office alleges that Trump falsified business records when he allegedly classified a reimbursement to Cohen as “legal expenses”.
We’re seeing that reimbursement plan being laid out on documents stamped with the Trump Organization seal right now.
On one, former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg details plans to reimburse Cohen on a monthly basis with funds from Trump’s personal account, McConney is explaining. McConney’s testimony is now taking us from the skyscrapers of Midtown Manhattan to the inner sanctums of the White House.
At some point in 2017, Michael Cohen started being reimbursed from Trump’s personal account. Trump was already president and living in the White House.
Jeffrey McConney explains that he created an entirely new process to get the payment approved.
Only Trump could sign those cheques, he said. They now had to get the cheques for Cohen’s reimbursement to the White House for Trump to sign, and they would be returned back to New York City where the Trump Organization was headquartered.
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