Michael Cohen has not been shy about his contempt for Donald Trump—up until last week, he was proudly broadcasting it to the world every single day on his TikTok account in the form of nightly live sessions. Meanwhile, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been preparing for Cohen to take the witness stand any day now in the ongoing hush money trial, but Cohen’s online presence could become a serious problem.

Since 2018, Cohen has been testifying about some of Trump’s most damning acts, including his propensity for inflating the Trump Organization’s real estate portfolio to gain access to bank loans, conspiring with Russia, and orchestrating hush money payments to women who claimed they slept with Trump in the run-up to the 2016 election. (Trump has denied having any affairs.)

That last admission led Bragg to indict and charge Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. The indictment is largely built on Cohen’s testimony; he told a grand jury that in 2016 he worked alongside Trump to coordinate hush money payments to at least two women who claimed they had affairs with Trump, in order to protect his presidential campaign.

Alongside this formal testimony, Cohen has also been providing more off-the-cuff hot takes on TikTok. Since the hush money trial began on April........

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