Trump Fixer Michael Cohen Is Ready for Star Turn Against His Old Boss

He made Stormy Daniels hush money payment at core of NY probe
Cohen implicated Trump, but US prosecutors never pursued it

Michael Cohen leaves federal court in New York on Nov. 22, 2021.Photographer: Jefferson Siegel/Bloomberg

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By Greg Farrell and Patricia Hurtado

March 20, 2023 at 7:39 PM UTC

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March 20, 2023 at 11:34 PM UTC

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Michael Cohen may be about to get the role he’s been auditioning for since 2018: witness for the prosecution against his old boss, Donald Trump.

If Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg proceeds with a case against Trump over a hush money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels, as widely expected, Cohen would be the state’s star witness. It was Cohen, after all, who handled the damage control transaction just before the 2016 presidential election Trump won. And Cohen went to prison for it — implicating Trump in his guilty plea to federal charges.