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Former President Donald Trump was convicted on all charges in the Manhattan criminal hush money case on Thursday, after the jury deliberated for less than 12 hours. It didn't have to end this way for him, wrote former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti for The New York Times — it was a "very winnable" case for him and he blew it with his go-to strategy of "attacking everyone and denying everything," which doesn't work as well in a courtroom as it does at Trump's political campaign events. "I have practiced criminal law for over 20 years, and I have tried and won cases as both a federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney," wrote Mariotti.

"I’ve almost never seen the defense win without a compelling counternarrative. Jurors often want to side with prosecutors, who have the advantage of writing the indictment, marshaling the witnesses and telling the story. The defense needs its own story, and in my experience, the side that tells the simpler story at trial usually wins.



" ALSO READ: Trump just endorsed this Virginia congressional candidate whose social media isn’t so MAGA Trump barely put on any effective defense during the trial, only calling two witnesses, one of whom antagonized the judge . He chose instead to focus on his daily rants outside the courthouse, attacking the process and claiming he is a victim of a political hit job — and inside the courtroom, noted Mariotti, his team resorted to a "haphazard cacophony of denials and personal attacks." "The powerfu.

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