Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen appeared in the Trump Organization fraud trial on Tuesday that will decide the company's fate.
MSNBC's Lisa Rubin was among those in the courtroom live-tweeting the trial and, when she left the morning proceedings for the lunch break, she revealed some colorful details about what had unfolded inside.
"So far, he's maintained decorum," said Rubin – in contrast to last week when Trump was huffing and loudly talking about witnesses to his attorney.
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"OK, I'll ask everyone to be quiet while the witness is testifying," Judge Arthur Engoron was forced to say.
"He doesn't seem to be demonstrably or visibly agitated by Cohen," Rubin revealed about the Tuesday court. "But the reverse is also true. Cohen is testifying as if Trump is not there. Speaking slowly, methodically, as if he knows his audience isn't just the judge, the ultimate decision maker here, but people like me and the rest of the media assembled to see what he has to say. He's been plain-spoken, loud, clear, and slow, and he is focused on delivering that testimony without regard to who is sitting on the other side of the room from him."
Leaving the courtroom at the break, Cohen told members of the press that it had been a "heck of a reunion."
The fraud lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James relies heavily on testimony that Cohen gave to Congress in 2019, in which he said that Trump, “Inflated his assets when it served his purposes." He also testified that he had evidence to prove it.
On Tuesday, Cohen confessed that while working for Trump, he helped Trump falsify documents that artificially inflated Trump's assets.
After that bombshell, the court broke for lunch.
See the video of Cohen leaving the courthouse and Rubin's report below or at the link here.
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