Cohen tells fraud trial he was told to boost Trump’s asset values ‘arbitrarily’

Michael Cohen arrives at court (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen has told the former president’s civil fraud trial that he worked to boost asset values to “whatever number Trump told us to”.

Five years after turning on a boss who he once pledged to “take a bullet” for, Cohen is a key witness in New York attorney general Letitia James’s lawsuit alleging that Trump and his company duped banks, insurers and others by giving them financial statements that inflated his wealth.