Central steam and special coverage of Donald Trumps Criminal Trial continues now and you are looking a lot pictures down inside 100 Centre Street behind me today, we expect to drama filled de, with important stakes for megarian, go a long way in determining of donald from gets convicted in ten days, 16 of trial right now, the former prisoners motorcade is on route to the courthouse. Once trump arrives in, court gets underway here, we expect the people to call the man whose evolve from protector to trump pariah, To Trump Prosecution witness Michael Cohen. Im interested. Cooper, new york. And then im jake tapper in y shoots and uci and you are wanting special cnn live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Cover Up Trial Today the man who bent the truth and broke the law for his his former boss, the former president goes on the stand. Michael dean cohen the former trump fixer and lawyer whose imposed trumps will on whatever he could bullying dealing and lawyering his way into getting trump
president david farenhold uncovered the rampant for years the trump foundation was founded exclusively with other peoples money. the trump family didn t put a dime into it. and it turns out what trump was actually doing with this charity to which other people had donated money as if was an actual charity, he was actually buying himself fun presents, lots and lots of pictures of himself, for example. he was also paying off legal fines and making illegal political contributions that charities aren t allowed to make, and ultimately he used it to do a bunch of stuff to promote his presidential exam pain, which again is something a charity can t do. that reporting in the washington post landed david a pulitzer prize. it also landed the president and his three oldest children in a middle of a lawsuit filled by
reporter david fahrenthold uncovered the rampant, rank, ridiculous corruption coming out of donald trump s supposed charity, the donald j. trump foundation. for years the trump foundation was funded exclusively with other people s money. despite the fact that it was called the trump foundation, for years the trump family didn t put a dime into it. and it turns out what trump was actually doing with this charity to which other people had donated money as if it were an actual charity, what he was doing is actually buying himself fun presents. lots and lots of pictures of himself, for example. he was also paying off legal fines and making illegal political contributions that charities aren t allowed to make. and ultimately he used the charity to do a bunch of stuff to promote his presidential campaign, which again is something that a charity can t do. that reporting in the washington post landed david a pulitzer prize. it also landed the president and his three oldest children in the
sure. what we will find out after michael cohen was sentenced and perhaps after a mueller report comes out or further indictment comes out, we will learn the extent to which the family knew about this trump tower deal in moscow, and what else they were doing in russia or what other real estate deals they were doing, and cohen had a front row seat to a lot of what the family was doing in the trump organization. it is a very small office and mom and pop shop, and the building where all of the adult children grew up as children. their offices were all right next to each other. so it is very difficult for me to believe that if the trump children were involved in some sort of real ess state deal that michael cohen didn t know, and what is harder for me to believe is that if michael cohen was involved in real estate deals that the trump family didn t know what he was doing. and pete, the president went out of the way to say there is nothing illegal about this, and he was a candidate and
so comfortable, russia, we have seen some outreach from them, israelis, there may be other countries too, what made them comfortable? what made donald trump jr. comfortable? that s the or paul manafort, someone who had so much more campaign experience than donald trump jr. but still, this seems somewhat obvious. trump jr. you can write off, he was new to this, the trump family didn t get it, whatever. it is hard to imagine paul manafort, most people, you know, if a campaign, you know, somebody comes to you from the outside, from a foreign nation and say we want to help you, help you get your father elected, that strikes anybody as astounding and most people would run to the fbi. that didn t happen here. that s concerning in and of itself. there say pattern. normally, you re like any law enforcement agency says we re seeing this pattern, we need to look into this. that s what went on here. i think donald trump jr. missed orientation day. this may be something that i suspect wi