Closing Arguments End in Trump Hush Money Trial

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 29 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Closing arguments in the former president's historic criminal hush money trial wrapped up in a lower Manhattan courtroom tonight. The prosecution told jurors they’ve seen a “mountain of evidence” to prove that Donald Trump falsified business records in order to cover up a damaging story involving an alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels at the end of the 2016 election. On the other side, Trump's team told the jury that this whole case relies on the testimony of his former fixer Michael Cohen, who according to them is the "MVP of liars" and is out to get Trump. Wednesday morning, after hearing instructions from Judge Juan Merchan, jurors will have the case and the former President's fate in their hands. Tonight, Anderson spoke with Michael Cohen's attorney Danya Perry and Stormy Daniels' attorney Clark Brewster to get their thoughts on closing arguments and how they think jury deliberations will go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And good evening, thanks for joining us. It went from early this morning, late into the evening, and it just wrapped up. First, the defense and then the prosecution, the first criminal trial ever of a former
0:13.2	president having their final say jurors will get the case tomorrow.
0:16.8	Manhattan prosecutor Joshua Steinglass until moments ago walking them step by step
0:20.9	by step through the former president's Hashmani payment to Stormy Daniel
0:24.8	shortly before the 2016 election and the alleged scheme to hide it from
0:28.7	voters. Now he emphasized how much of the case in his telling did not rely solely on the testimony
0:34.9	former fixture Michael Cohen whose faults he acknowledged saying quote
0:38.0	we didn't pick him up at the witness store as for a defense attorney Todd Blanche
0:42.2	he accused Cohen of lying to the jury calling him quote the MVP of liars and the gloat which he said stands for greatest liar of all time.
0:50.0	He wrapped up by listing 10 justifications for reasonable doubt,
0:53.2	the final one being Michael Cohen.
0:55.3	Blanch also earned a scolding from the judge for saying,
0:58.3	quote, you cannot send somebody to prison, unquote, based on Cohen's word.
1:02.6	Judges make that decision, not juries.
1:05.1	The judge will instruct jurors on the relevant points of law
1:07.6	tomorrow, after which the former president's fate
1:10.0	will be in their hands.
1:11.1	As for him, he went into today complaining online that the prosecution gets the last word,
1:15.3	complaining during a break this afternoon that the prosecution's closing arguments were,
1:19.7	quote, boring. We're waiting to see if you'll have anything to say tonight.
1:23.4	With us is New York Criminal Defense Attorney Arthur I Dallas, seen in Legal
1:26.7	analyst Norma Eisen, seen in Newsnights, Abby Philip, the source is Caitlin Collins, all three
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