[NYTimes]: Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, picks up where she left off, with Michael Cohen on the verge of describing having made the hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels. She shows him a series of emails with Keith Davidson, who was Daniels’s lawyer in 2016. Davidson, who has already testified he was frustrated by a delay in receiving the payment, says in the email that it wasn't necessary for him to speak to Cohen, and that he just wanted to be paid. ..
Davidson testified earlier in the trial that he thought Cohen was using the Jewish holiday as an excuse to avoid making the hush money payment — to try to push the issue to beyond the election when the story would no longer matter. Cohen confirms Davidson's impression here. By Jonathan Swan
“I used the holiday of Yom Kippur as a way of just once again trying to delay” the payment, Cohen says. Yom Kippur, the day of repentance, is often considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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