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The Latest | Cohen expected to take the stand as testimony in Trump hush money case enters 4th week

The fourth week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial could be a doozy. Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer Michael Cohen is expected to take the stand on Monday. Prosecutors have spent weeks building up a case that largely hinges on record-keeping. Witnesses, text messages, notes and audio recordings have taken center stage to illustrate what prosecutors have said was a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and burying negative stories that might hurt his campaign. The former president is accused of falsifying internal business records to cover up hush money payments by logging them as legal expenses. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts.

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