Trump reads back to media their own trial reporting: 'No smoking gun'

Former President Trump greeted the media Tuesday morning holding a sheet of paper detailing news reports that there's 'no smoking gun' in the unprecedented Manhattan trial. 'NBC ‘Today' show: 'The challenge is that there is no smoking gun, no email or tape to prove the president's intent. They don't have a way to prove that.' That's NBC ‘Today’ show,' Trump said Tuesday morning.

The case focuses on Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, paying former pornographic actor Stormy Daniels $130,000 to allegedly quiet her claims of an alleged extramarital affair she had with the then-real estate tycoon in 2006. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels. Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the payments as legal expenses.

The court heard from its 10th witness Monday, former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney, who testified that Trump did not direct him to set up repayments to Cohen. 'Michael Cohen was a lawyer?' defense attorney Emil Bove asked former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey McConney on Monday at the start of the fourth week of the trial. 'Sure, yes,' McConney responded. 'And payments to lawyers by the Trump Organization are legal expenses, right?' asked Bove.

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