Trump trial sees investigator return to the stand as 3rd week nears close

A forensic expert who useful for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will resume grounds Friday successful nan trial of erstwhile President Donald Trump.

On Thursday, Douglas Daus introduced a signaling of Michael Cohen speaking to Trump, which he said he located connected Cohen's phone.

"I request to unfastened up a institution for nan transportation of each of that info regarding our friend, David," said Cohen, referring to erstwhile National Enquirer patient David Pecker, who helped suppress a model's declare of an matter pinch Trump.

"So, what do we sewage to salary for this? 150?" Trump tin beryllium heard asking, describing nan magnitude that Pecker's publication paid nan model, Karen McDougal.

Earlier successful nan day, McDougal's erstwhile lawyer Keith Davidson testified astir that woody and different he negotiated from conscionable earlier nan statesmanlike election: a $130,000 payment from Cohen to big movie prima Stormy Daniels.

Davidson and nan assemblage heard different of Cohen's recordings. In that October 2017 telephone call, Cohen said, "I can't moreover show you really galore times [Trump] said to me, you know, 'I dislike nan truth that we did it,'" referring to nan Daniels deal.

Cohen is expected to attest later successful nan trial. He is prosecutors' cardinal witnesser against Trump, who has pleaded not blameworthy to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump denies committing nan crimes and says he did not person activity pinch Daniels aliases McDougal.