Boost for Trump as Cohen loses fees case and Zervos drops defamation suit

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Donald Trump saw his former campaign chair and White House strategist Steve Bannon indicted on Friday, for contempt of Congress over the Capitol attack. But the former president also received two slices of good news from courts in New York.

In one development, Summer Zervos, a former contestant on Trump's TV reality show who accused him of sexual assault, dropped her defamation lawsuit against him.