When Michael Cohen finally faced his former boss, Donald Trump, for the first time in five years as the former president’s civil fraud trial continues, there was a true moment of reckoning.

This was finally Cohen’s chance to get a few things off his chest.

As Newsweek reports, both men appeared face-to-face in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday, where Cohen, the ex-president’s former attorney and fixer testified in connection with the hefty $250 million lawsuit filed by the New York state attorney general’s office. The lawsuit accuses Trump of falsely inflating his assets in order to trick lenders, insurers, and others.

And Cohen’s testimony is the moment many people have been waiting for. After publicly turning on Trump five years ago, he’s gone from one of Trump’s biggest allies, who vowed to “take a bullet” for his former boss to one of his sharpest critics. Cohen was scheduled to testify last week, but his appearance was delayed when a medical issue cropped up.

Indeed, Cohen’s testimony must have struck deeply as he told the court under oath that he lied to Congress under Trump’s orders and for his benefit. He also told the court that Trump “arbitrarily” set his net worth numbers.

“I was asked to increase the total assets based upon a number that he arbitrarily elected,” Cohen said, referring to Trump’s 2011 financial statement. And that’s not all, it was, he said, his responsibility to reverse engineer various assets “in order to achieve a number that Mr. Trump asked” for.

Talking to reporters outside the courthouse, Cohen said he was “looking forward to the reunion” and insisted that his appearance wasn’t about the bad blood between him and his old boss that resulted in a yearslong feud.

“This is not about Donald Trump versus Michael Cohen or Michael Cohen versus Donald Trump,” Cohen told the reporters. “This is about accountability plain and simple.”

But Trump doesn’t seem to feel the same way, because he wasted no time in attacking his former attorney, calling Cohen a “liar” to the press and saying that the only reason he took the stand was to “get a better deal for himself.”

“He has a horrible record,” Trump said Tuesday. “It’s not going to end up very good for him. We’re not worried at all about this testimony.”

As Cohen took the stand, Trump appeared to lean forward in his chair, watching intently and whispering to his lawyers at some points. Cohen glanced briefly at the defense table as he headed toward the stand.

While it’s been a long five years since Trump and Cohen have seen each other, Cohen has been quite busy, writing two books, testifying in front of half a dozen congressional committees, and appearing before local and state prosecutors to discuss the work he did for the former president.

Talking to The Messenger’s Adam Klasfeld, Cohen said that he “provided information to [New York’s attorney general] that is the basis of this trial.”

I’m glad Cohen took the stand. He’s finally standing on the right side of justice, where he should have been in the first place.

Better late than never, I suppose.