Michael Cohen's lawyer says there is "substantial documentation" to prove former President Donald Trump's guilt with regard to his indictment in Manhattan related to hush money payments.
Lanny Davis, who represents Cohen, also said that his client has provided documentation regarding a hush money payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal, while speaking on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday.
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"Michael Cohen submitted a lot of documentation not only to this group of prosecutors but to the earlier group. And there are other documents from other people and other testimony from other people, some of it direct involving conversations with Mr. Trump concerning the Karen McDougal crime. Remember there are two crimes here. And so the answer is substantial documentation," Davis said.
Davis also told Axios that he "infers" the McDougal documentation is being used in Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg's case against Trump either as "part of the charges or the narrative."
Much of the attention for the Manhattan indictment of Trump has been centered on the alleged hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels in 2016, but documentation of payments to McDougal would add more to what has been criticized by some legal experts as a flimsy case against Trump.
The charges in the indictment against Trump are not publicly known because per New York state law, the indictment must remain sealed until he can be arraigned. Trump is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday. He has also announced he will be delivering a speech from his Mar-a-Lago resort Tuesday evening, after his scheduled arraignment.
The former president has attacked the indictment since it was announced on Thursday, saying it was an unprecedented attack on the country, in a lengthy Truth social post that day.
Trump is the first former U.S. president to be criminally indicted in American history.
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