The Independent

Loyalist. Bully. Liar: The many faces of Michael Cohen

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It’s the moment that everyone following Donald Trump’s hush money trial had been waiting for.

On Monday morning, the case’s star witness Michael Cohen took the stand to testify against his former boss and kick off the fifth week of the first criminal trial of a former president in American history.

Even before he stepped up to the witness stand, Cohen – as one of the most talked about figures of the ongoing criminal case – has been on display in many forms, both in trial and online.

In the first four weeks of the trial, Cohen’s name cropped up almost daily in courtroom testimony.

Jurors heard him described as Mr Trump’s “fixer,” his former personal lawyer, a campaign “surrogate,” a convicted felon, a “pants-on-fire kind of guy” and a liar.

Now, as he took

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