Michael Cohen testified Monday that it was then-2016 candidate Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, who cast her husband’s comments on an infamous “Access Hollywood” tape as “locker room talk” after it first leaked just before that year’s election.
Cohen, the former attorney-turned-star witness in the Manhattan case against Trump over an alleged hush money scheme, testified that he became aware of the tape on which Trump describes inappropriately grabbing women seemingly without their consent when 2016 campaign press secretary Hope Hicks called him about it.
The former president’s ex-fixer said he was concerned about the tape and sent emails to then-campaign manager Steve Bannon “in order to protect Mr….
