This trial is the first time former President Donald Trump and his former lawyer Michael Cohen have been in the same room since Cohen was sentenced in 2018. Cohen is accused of helping to defraud the Trump Organization by inflating the value of assets in order to obtain loans, and has testified that Trump was aware of the fraud. Trump's lawyers have denied the allegations and argued that the case is politically motivated. The trial is expected to last several weeks and will include testimony from other witnesses.
