'Clearly a fact witness': Donald Trump Jr called to testify in Michael Cohen lawsuit

Donald Trump Jr. has been ordered to testify in a lawsuit filed by Michael Cohen over unpaid legal fees.

A New York Supreme Court justice ruled in a pretrial hearing Friday that Cohen should be allowed to call Trump Jr. to testify at a trial scheduled for July 24, although the former president's son may try to block the subpoena, reported The Messenger.

"He’s clearly a fact witness," said Justice Joel Cohen at the hearing. "If you can get him here, there’s no way I would preclude you from calling him as a witness."

Cohen originally filed the lawsuit in 2019 seeking to recoup payment from the Trump Organization for his legal work during investigations by Congress and special counsel Robert Mueller.

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Hunter Winstead, an attorney for Cohen, argued that Trump Jr. received legal representation through the family business for some of the matters for which the former Trump Organization lawyer said he is owed, and the ex-president's namesake son was one of a small number of people who approved legal expenditures for the company.

The former president had been included on a proposed list of witnesses but both parties agreed to drop him.