Donald Trump isn't familiar with the word 'truth', says Michael Cohen's lawyer

Trump was indicted on Thursday an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office into his alleged connection to hush money payments made to adult- film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Donald Trump's former personal attorney and key witnesses in the indictment of the ex-president, Michael Cohen previously served prison time for multiple crimes, including campaign finance violations for his role in hush money schemes to pay two women who claimed to have affairs with Trump.

Speaking on the Camilla Tominey show his lawyer Lanny Davis said: "He's [Donald Trump] accused of what his former lawyer, my client Michael Cohen, went to jail for.

"And that is if you pay somebody money right before an election or with any political motivation in order to prevent that person from telling the American people information, in this case an alleged affair with Stormy Daniels that might have influenced voters had they known about it, that is a federal crime, and probably a state crime as well.

"Because the Southern District of New York, which are prosecutors in the United States - may be the most prestigious prosecutors - accused Michael Cohen of facilitating that payment on behalf of his client, Donald Trump.

"And they said this is a serious crime because it deprives voters of the information that they need and it's using money to hush somebody up. So it's a serious felony. It is a crime to do that."

Trump's specific charges are not yet known, as the indictment remains under seal.

However, Trump is accused of falsifying business records after $130,000 was paid to the adult performer to stop her from speaking publicly about an affair she claims to have had with him in 2006.

Davis said: "This is the Donald Trump playbook. You notice there isn't a single fact in one of those words.

"He attacks and uses labels, but he doesn't understand facts. In fact, he doesn't understand the difference between facts and non facts. And I say that as a Democrat who didn't support him, but I don't think there's a lot of dispute among people who work for him, known him for years, in that his attention span doesn't grasp facts.

"So what he's got to do in a courtroom and he has no choice, unfortunately for him, is facts, evidence that then 12 people called the jury will have to decide whether he's guilty or innocent".

He added: "When he gets into that courtroom, there are 12 people are going to have to decide is he telling the truth.

"And I think, whether you're a Trump supporter or a non Trump supporter, that the truth is not a word that Donald Trump is very familiar with."

The Manhattan investigation is just one of several legal challenges concerning Trump, which includes a separate criminal probe into whether he unlawfully tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat in Georgia.