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Cohen reveals insider details at trial, Trump’s defense claims motive is vengeance

Michael Cohen testifies during former US President Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan state court in New York City on May 14, 2024, in this courtroom sketch. © Jane Rosenberg, Reuters

It wasn't until after a decade in the fold, after his family pleaded with him, after the FBI raided his office, apartment and hotel room, Michael Cohen testified Tuesday, that he finally decided to turn on Donald Trump.

The complicated break led to a 2018 guilty plea to federal charges involving a payment to the porn actor Stormy Daniels to bury her story of an alleged sexual encounter with Trump and to other, unrelated crimes.

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