What witnesses think about Michael Cohen as Donald Trump’s former fixer and lawyer testifies

There’s been a recurring theme in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial after three weeks of testimony: Michael Cohen is not favoured by the witnesses.

While Mr Trump’s former lawyer and fixer once styled himself as a “spokesman, thug, pit bull and lawless lawyer”, others in the courtroom have given him less aggrandising titles of “jerk” and “aggressive guy”.

After weeks of delay, and admitting some of the witnesses came with “baggage”, prosecutors finally put forward Mr Cohen in the hope that he finds favour with the jury.

On Monday, the 57-year-old and Mr Trump, 77, came face-to-face at Manhattan Criminal Court after their last meeting at the ex-president’s New York civil fraud trial in the autumn.

Mr Cohen has finally taken the stand to give testimony in what prosecutors hope can help them prove Mr Trump falsified business records ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Mr Trump is accused of making a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels via Mr Cohen to allegedly suppress stories about an alleged affair. Prosecutors claim he fraudulently reimbursed his former lawyer for the $130,000 paid to Ms Daniels.

The presumptive Republican presidential candidate denies both the affair and the charges against him.

The jury has already heard a host of scathing descriptions from a wide pool of witnesses concerning Mr Cohen.

Former head of American Media Inc David Pecker said that Mr Cohen was “prone to exaggeration”.

While former Trump adviser Hope Hicks commented that he liked to call himself a “fixer” or “Mr Fix It”. She took the gloss of his title, saying that he was given the name because he usually “broke it first”.

Ms Daniels’ former lawyer Keith Davidson said that he only dealt with Mr Cohen after the adult star’s manager at