During the trial, the jury was presented with an email exchange between Michael Cohen and Keith Davidson, the attorney representing Stormy Daniels. In the email, Cohen revealed that he used the holiday Yom Kippur as a tactic to delay the release of information until after the election. Cohen stated that Trump had informed him that the timing of the story would not impact the election results.
According to Cohen's testimony, Trump instructed him to prolong the release of the information as much as possible to ensure it did not come out before the election. Trump allegedly expressed that the story's relevance would be insignificant if he won the election, as he would be the President. Similarly, if he lost the election, Trump purportedly stated that he did not care about the consequences of the story being made public.
