News about Michael Cohen

David Pecker says that, when he received a letter from the Federal Election Commission, he called Michael Cohen and asked him what to do. Pecker recalled Cohen saying, "'Jeff Sessions is the attorney general, and Donald Trump has him in his pocket.'"

David Pecker says Trump wanted all content the National Enquirer developed and retained on Trump — including old files. Pecker says Michael Cohen told him that if he "got hit by a bus or the company was sold, he did not want someone else to potentially publish those stories."

Pecker: Michael Cohen was Trump's personal atty. Met him at a bar mitzvah in early 2000.

Prosecution hands up ten posts, from Truth Social and from campaign website; notes that the defendant attacked witness Michael Cohen in the hallway outside the courtroom yesterday, and reads from it, says they will file another OSC today seeking contempt.