NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump will be back in court on Tuesday for his civil fraud trial in New York, but a face-to-face confrontation with former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen will have to wait.
Cohen, a key witness in the state’s lawsuit against the former president, postponed his testimony, saying he had a health issue to attend to.
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