Donald Trump sues former lawyer Michael Cohen for greater than $500m

Donald Trump is suing his former lawyer Michael Cohen for greater than $500m (£400m), in line with a Florida courtroom submitting.

The former American president is submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Mr Cohen after he testified earlier than a grand jury which later charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying enterprise data.

The 76-year-old, who’s the primary present or former US president to be charged with against the law, pleaded not responsible to the counts.

He additionally denied any involvement in a conspiracy for his alleged function in hush cash funds to 2 ladies in direction of the top of his 2016 presidential marketing campaign.

Mr Cohen, who was Trump’s “fixer”, is now dealing with a lawsuit which accuses him of violating his attorney-client privilege with the previous president.

It claims Mr Cohen unfold “falsehoods” and revealed “confidences” in media appearances, podcasts and books together with wrongfully calling Trump “racist” in Disloyal – his 2020 memoir reflecting on his time underneath Trump as his lawyer.

Cohen was loyal to Trump till 2019 when he testified earlier than a US congressional committee.

He mentioned: “I am ashamed because I know what Mr Trump is. He is a racist. He is a conman. He is a cheat.”

Mr Cohen, who pleaded responsible in 2018 to violating federal election legislation by paying $130,000 (£104,000) to grownup movie star Stormy Daniels simply earlier than the 2016 election, was sentenced to 3 years in jail, for that and different crimes.

He is about to be the important thing witness within the Stormy Daniels case ought to it come to trial.