Michael Cohen testifies that he would ‘lie’ and ‘bully’ on behalf of Trump: Live updates

Now we’re again to Daniels’ dissastisfaction of the delayed cost

Davidson needed an “speedy wire switch” and Cohen mentioned he wanted 10 days — “What I used to be instructed to do. Push it previous the election day. I used to be following instructions.”

So, the deadline can be October 14? Have been you anticipating to make the cost by October 14?

“What had been you planning on doing?”

The court docket breaks for lunch.

Now we’re seeing an e-mail from Keith Davidson on October 11, 2016,

Michael: please see the settlement settlement and aspect letter settlement hooked up… neither my shopper or I are entitled to the [side letter agreement]… Ms Daniels expressed dissatisfaction with a delay of 10 days for funding.

Cohen testifies that he and Keith Davidson had already agreed to the “principals” of this settlement by October 11.

“Life rights story would by no means come out and he or she would by no means come out… there was a really massive” breach provision the place she would owe $1m per violation.

Cohen says the aspect letter settlement was a one-page doc that would come with the pseudonyms that we had been going to make use of in case the NDA obtained out “Nobody would know who Peggy Peterson was.”

Cohen says Trump instructed him to work with David Pecker a couple of technique to cope with the story.

“Push it out so long as you may… if I win, it will not matter” Cohen says Trump mentioned of the story being launched.

How lengthy do you suppose it will be in the marketplace for?

“He wasn’t excited about Melania. This was all concerning the marketing campaign.”

Cohen then spoke to Mr Trump about it “as a result of it was a matter that affected him. and since that is what I all the time did, to maintain him abreast of every thing… it was a really severe matter”.

Trump was “very offended,” Cohen mentioned, including, “I believed you had this underneath management. I believed you took care of this.”

“Simply care for it. There’s so much occurring on the marketing campaign on the time” Trump mentioned.

“It is a catastrophe. It is a complete catastrophe. Girls are going to hate me. This actually is a catastrophe. Girls are going to hate me. Guys will suppose it’s cool however this can be a catastrophe for the marketing campaign.”

Cohen mentioned “On the time, Trump was polling very poorly with girls. With Entry Hollywood, he thought it was a catastrophe. he mentioned ‘Get management of it.’”

In court docket, Trump appears offended and aggravated.

Texts from October 9, 2016.

Dylan Howard: emailed you. Keith will do it. Let’s reconvene tomorrow.

Cohen: Thanks. Decision Consultants is the identify of the entity I shaped every week in the past. Once you wake, please name my cell (bc of the time distinction 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

Cohen pitched utilizing the newly shaped shell firm Decision Consultants LLC to settle the Daniels story.

An October 10, 2016 e-mail was despatched to Keith Davidson and Michael Cohen.

Dylan Howard: connecting you each on this enterprise alternative. spoke to the shopper this AM they usually’re confirmed to proceed with the chance

Cohen testifies: Which means you two ought to simply converse independently.

The dialog was “concerning the life rights of Stormy Daniels,” Cohen defined, and known as Davidson.

Cohen testified that if In Contact did not take down the article [the interview Stormy Daniels gave in 2011], he threatened to file a lawsuit in opposition to them.

“I gave credit score to Keith Davidson, who was the one who filed and despatched papers to thedirty.com to have it eliminated.”

In between 2011 and 2016, had you heard something concerning the Stormy Daniels matter?

Keith Davidson was going to be representing Stormy Daniels, he realized in 2016.

The dialog about Stormy Daniels attempting to promote her story got here up, he believed with Dylan Howard, Cohen instructed the court docket.

He mentioned that on the time he knew who Stormy was due to the “2011 situation that he had handled Keith Davidson on with a view to have the story faraway from thedirty.com”. He thought this was “catastrophic. horrible for the marketing campaign”.

Hoffinger asks: In 2011, while you had been engaged in doing that, did you have got a convo with Mr Trump about stormy daniels?

“Sure. After I obtained the data from Dylan Howard, I instantly went to Trump’s workplace, mentioned, ‘Boss can I converse to you?’ and instructed him about some substance of the dialog with Dylan Howard… I requested if he knew who she was and he mentioned that he did. I acknowledged that the story on thedirty.com acknowledged that they’d had a relationship at a golf outing in 2006.”

Cohen continued: “And I instructed him that one of many issues we have to do is care for it. And he mentioned, ‘Do it. Care for it.”

Trump mentioned that he was enjoying golf with “Huge Ben Roethlisberger” however “she favored Mr Trump and that girls favor Trump, even over somebody like Huge Ben.”

Cohen requested if Trump had mentioned something concerning the 2006 encounter. Cohen mentioned he requested if Trump had intercourse together with her. He did however there was no reply, he says.

Trump additionally known as her — as with Karen McDougal — a “lovely lady”.

Cohen mentioned he instructed Trump the Radar On-line story can be “dealt with” as a result of he needed “credit score” for working whereas he was in London for his daughter’s twenty first and his anniversary, and he needed Pecker to get credit score as nicely – exhibiting off the work they mentioned they agreed to again in 2015.

Now we’re an e-mail from Dylan Howard on October 8, 2016, with a CC to David Pecker:

“The tape was not part of the story that existed on-line… I’ve deleted the textual content story. It now not exists,” Howard mentioned, referring to a RadarOnline story.

The article title was: “Donald Trump, Playboy Man”

(AMI owned RadarOnline at this level, Cohen says he does not know who owned it when the story went up)

He requested AMI to take down the story as a result of it was “detrimental” to Trump and his marketing campaign.

Cohen confirms that he requested to take down the story due to the blowback from the Entry Hollywood tape.

A textual content alternate between Cohen and then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo is proven:

Chris Cuomo: You going to defend him?

Cohen: I am in London. I’ve been requested by everybody to do reveals beginning Tuesday [when he’d be back in New York]… undecided what I might do.

Cuomo: Will likely be too late. he is dying proper now.

Cohen understood that to imply “this can be a tremendously detrimental story for the trump marketing campaign”.

Cohen’s ideas on the tape: “This was going to be considerably impactful, particularly with girls voters.”