Michael Cohen hands over cell phone in Trump and Stormy Daniels probe trends now
Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has handed his cell phone to Manhattan prosecutors investigating the $130,000 hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels.
The fixer revealed his cooperation to CNN on Wednesday in the probe into the bid to stop the porn star going public with her affair with the former president before the 2016 election.
Trump denied the relationship again this week and called Daniels 'Horseface' as a grand jury was convened to hear evidence.
'Most recently, they asked for my cell phones because they want to be able to extract from it the voice recordings that I had had with Keith Davidson, former attorney to Stormy Daniels before Michael Avenatti, as well as a bunch of emails, text messages and so on,' Cohen told Don Lemon after meeting with prosecutors earlier this month.
Cohen pleaded guilty to federal campaign finance charges and was given three years in prison in 2018 for facilitating the $130,000 payment to Daniels.
He spent most of his sentence in home confinement in his Manhattan apartment.
Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has handed his cell phone to Manhattan prosecutors investigating alleged hush-money payments made to Stormy Daniels
Trump denied the relationship again this week and called Daniels 'Horseface' as a grand jury was convened to hear evidence.
Federal prosecutors said the Trump Organization paid him $420,000 to cover his original payment and tax liabilities, and reward him with a bonus.
He also responded to the video of his old boss pleading the Fifth 400 times over four hours in a deposition with New York's Attorney General Letitia James.
'Donald cannot keep track of the lies that he tells, and so, what better way to stop a fool from being deposed and hurting himself further than to tell him to plead the Fifth at least 400 times,' he added.
On Tuesday night, Daniels hit back at Trump after he went on a tirade on Truth Social over the alleged payments.
Daniels claims to have slept with Trump in 2006, but the ex-president denied the allegations on his Truth Social app on Monday.
A grand jury is set to hear testimony this week about the former president's role in the payment made to keep Daniels quiet during his 2016 campaign, the New York Times reported.
The porn star responded to Trump's tirade on Twitter, claiming: 'He opens his mouth more than I do my legs.'
'Thanks for just admitting that I was telling the truth about EVERYTHING,' Daniels wrote. Guess I'll take my "horse face" back to bed now, Mr. former "president".'
Daniels claims she slept with Trump while he was married to former First Lady Melania Trump, who had given birth to their son Barron less than six months before their brief fling.
She said the president paid her $130,000 to keep quiet.
Trump lambasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a 'radical' prosecutor.
He also accused Bragg of spending more time investigating him than going after crime in New York City, and claims the Democrat leaked the grand jury report to the press himself.
