As the criminal trial of Donald Trump began its seventh week, the prosecution and the defence made their final pitches to jurors, sending the landmark case into deliberations Wednesday. A defence lawyer, Todd Blanche, spent three hours on Tuesday hammering Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness, including accusing him of perjury. He attacked Stormy Daniels , the adult film actor whose account of a tryst with Trump in 2006 set in motion the charges the former president faces.
The prosecution countered with an even longer, more detailed summation, pushing into the evening. A prosecutor, Joshua Steinglass, guided jurors through reams of evidence they had introduced and elicited, including testimony, emails, text messages and recordings. Trump (77), is charged with falsifying 34 business records to hide Cohen’s reimbursement for a $130,000 hush-money payment he made to Daniels.
Prosecutors say that in making the payments, Trump intended to unlawfully influence the 2016 presidential election . Trump has denied the charges and the sexual encounter. READ MORE Trump hush-money case: Key points from last night’s closing arguments Irish ‘sneaking regarders’ of Trump are naive about the threat he poses to democracy Trump lawyer asks jurors to set personal views aside as hush money trial nears end Robert F Kennedy jnr’s election campaign: ‘I think he is going to be president Kennedy’ Once deliberations begin on Wednesday, no one knows how long they will take.
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