The case is now handed over to the jury, which will begin deliberations on Wednesday. The prosecution and the defense presented their closing arguments on Tuesday in the first ever criminal case against an American ex-president. The defense argued that the prosecution’s main witness Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer”, is not credible and accused him of lying on the witness stand.
– He embodies the concept of reasonable doubt. Literally, Trump’s defense attorney said of Cohen, writing Politico.
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Intimate details
The prosecution’s big challenge has been to show that the false accounting was done to cover up larger, not fully specified crimes: they say Trump tried to influence the 2016 election by hiding unfavorable information – about the relationship with Daniels.
She gave on the witness stand intimate details about the relationship, a key to the prosecution according to Assistant Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass’ closing argument.
“It was exactly what she said that the defendant did not want the American voters to see,” he said on Tuesday.
How will it end?
The 34 counts of accounting violations on which the indictment is based focus on how repayments to Michael Cohen were recorded. The main witness Cohen testified that he made payments, so-called “hush money” – hush money, to Daniels on Trump’s direct orders.
Will the jury of twelve Manhattanites convict Donald Trump on the 34 counts of accounting crimes? Or free? Or plead some of the charges? Another scenario is that the jury cannot agree on a verdict. Since the jury must agree, that would mean a mistrial.