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Miami police detectives are working to identify the man they say died trying to get his bike off the front of a City of Miami trolley.
With the bike still wedged underneath, fire rescue pulled the man from under the trolley and tried to save him, but he did not make it.
City of Miami spokesperson Kenia Fallat says, "Right now detectives are saying that he’s unidentified, but he appears to be a black male somewhere in his 50’s."
The accident shut down busy southwest 8th Street and 36th Avenue this morning around 11:30 a.m.
Police say the driver of the trolley, is a man wearing a dark blue shirt. He is not employed by the city of Miami.
Michael Cohen, who was among Donald Trump’s most trusted legal advisers before he was elected president in 2016, took the stand Monday in Trump’s criminal trial in New York, where he testified about his involvement in "hush money" payments that are central to the case.
Cohen told jurors about the decade he spent working for Trump as his self-described "fixer" and attorney, testifying that he kept Trump up to date on talks surrounding payments made before the 2016 election to two women who claimed they had sex with Trump.
The former president and presumptive GOP presidential nominee faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and has pleaded not guilty. He denies having sex with the women.
Cohen is a key character in the prosecution’s narrative. In October 2016, he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 out of his own pocket in exchange for her silence. Prosecutors say 11 checks that Cohen received from Trump over the course of the following year were falsely classified as legal fees to cover up the deal with Daniels.
On the stand Monday, Cohen testified that Trump personally approved of the plan to reimburse him. Cohen said he agreed to put up the money to protect Trump, who wanted him to delay the agreement with Daniels and "just get past the election."
"Because if I win it won’t have relevance, I’m going to be the president. And if I lose, I won’t really care," Trump said, according to Cohen.
Defense attorneys are expected to fiercely attack Cohen’s credibility when they get the chance to pose questions. In 2018, he pleaded guilty to federal charges related to the Daniels payment, as well as lying to Congress. When he testified in a separate Trump civil case last year, Cohen also admitted to lying under oath in other instances.
Cohen will return to the stand on Tuesday as prosecutors continue their questioning. Here’s how his first day of testimony unfolded:
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