Former U.S. president Donald Trump talks to the press with his attorney, Todd Blanche, right, outside the courtroom of his trial in Manhattan criminal court in New York on May 14.Donald Trump’s lawyers plan to resume their cross-examination of the Republican presidential candidate’s ex-fixer Michael Cohen on Thursday, aiming to undermine his testimony that Trump was intimately involved in buying a porn star’s silence over an alleged sexual encounter.
Testifying at the first criminal trial of a U.S. president past or present, Cohen said he and Trump discussed a plan to reimburse Cohen for the payout through a series of bogus invoices for legal fees. Their chats included one in the White House Oval Office when Trump was president in 2017, Cohen said.
“He didn’t deliver any hammer blows,” George Grasso, a retired New York state judge who has been attending the trial, said of Blanche’s questioning of Cohen. “If the case were to end right now, I think that they have enough evidence on the record to justify a finding by this jury beyond a reasonable doubt that Donald Trump is guilty.”, 77, faces 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York and has pleaded not guilty also in the three other cases he faces.
, which began on April 15 in New York state criminal court.
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