Former President Donald Trump may take the stand in his own defense next week during his criminal trial proceedings — likely against the advice of his lawyers. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s team of prosecutors are planning to rest their case against Trump after the defense’s cross-examination of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen concludes next week. Trump’s attorneys have not yet said if they would call any witnesses in the case, and Trump himself has not yet ruled out his own testimony. However, in a recent segment on MSNBC, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston, wh…