Election deadline and ‘just do it’: Trump trial key takeaways, day 16

Michael Cohen testifies that Trump was intimately involved in hush-money deal and got real-time updates on Stormy Daniels

Michael Cohen, the former lawyer to Donald Trump whose $130,000 payment to the adult film star Stormy Daniels is at the heart of the criminal case against the former president, provided the first testimony on Monday that ensnared Trump in an alleged illicit repayment scheme.

Just do it," Cohen recalled Trump told him in pressing him to pay Daniels, before later approving the plan to reimburse him. Trump was intimately involved in the hush-money deal and was concerned the Daniels story would hurt his approval among women voters.