During the day-long speeches, both sides summed up their arguments and the evidence presented. Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, was the first to convince that his client was innocent of charges regarding attempts to hide payment for the silence of porn actor Stormy Daniels. Trump was to make her keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Serial Liar
April 4, 2023 Donald Trump heard 34 allegations in fresh York court of falsifying business records, including paying $130,000 to hide information that could harm his run in 2016.
This amount was to be given to adult movie actor Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence on alleged sexual relations with Trump. Officially, the money was to be paid to Trump's then lawyer, Michael Cohen, for providing legal services. The erstwhile president of the United States has not confessed from the outset.
Trump's lawyer argued that Cohen, who had already served a prison sentence, was a notorious liar, and the checks issued to him were indeed compensation for the services rendered.
According to CNN, Trump's defender was reprimanded by the justice for attempting to incite compassion for the erstwhile president by remembering the anticipation of jailing him. Blanche besides claimed that Cohen himself decided to pay $130,000 to Daniels to prevent Daniels' relation with Trump from being published before the election. The same communicative the porn actor called false and accused her of trying to extort Trump's money.
Joshua Steinglass, representing the fresh York Attorney's Office, presented concealing payments to Daniels as part of Trump's illegal activities affecting the 2016 election. In addition to Daniels, besides model Karen MacDougal and 1 of the doormen at Trump Tower, Dino Sajudin, received payments for “silence” adverse to Trump's history. The prosecutor besides provided evidence that Trump personally supervised his interests and had to be active in covering up these stories.
Other Trump cases
The fresh York trial is not the only criminal case Donald Trump is in.
A national court in Washington, D.C., the erstwhile president faces accusations of conspiracy to keep power despite losing the 2020 election. The Georgia State Court accused him of attempting to manipulate the results of the election in that state, and the Florida national court accused him of illegally exporting secret state papers from the White home after his resignation in 2021 and storing them at Mar-a-Lago's private residence.
Trials in all these cases have not yet begun and will most likely not be completed before the elections. If Trump wins in November, these processes will most likely be decommissioned.
