Donald Trump’s Defense Rests Its Case in Hush Money Criminal Trial

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Trump defense rested today in the criminal hush money trial without calling the former president to the witness stand after he said at one point that he'd testify. The trial is adjourned until next Tuesday when closing arguments are expected. CNN legal commentator Robert Ray, counsel to former President Trump in his first impeachment trial, and former New York Supreme Court judge Diane Kiesel break down what happens next. Plus, a video was posted on the former president’s Truth Social account Monday that included images of a fake newspaper article that contained the words "unified Reich." The video was removed from his account Tuesday morning, and a Trump campaign spokesperson said in a statement that the video was not created by the campaign and was “reposted by a staffer who clearly did not see the word, while the president was in court.” CNN political commentators Van Jones and Alyssa Farah Griffin talk about how something like this happens and why it took so long to take it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, the defense of the Trump trial rests, but not without a damaging cross-examination
0:07.1	of their only witness.
0:08.1	Also, new photos we have never seen before in the classified documents case, allegedly showing a Trump aid and co-defendant moving
0:14.4	boxes inside Maralago before Trump attorneys were to check for classified files.
0:20.1	And severe turbulence on board a Singapore bound plane from London,
0:23.2	one dead dozens injured how it happened tonight.
0:26.8	Good evening.
0:27.5	The defense of Donald Trump ended today in a Manhattan courtroom.
0:30.5	The former president who's made wild accusations outside the court chose to remain
0:34.8	silent and not speak to the jury under oath.
0:37.6	The one witnessed the defense did want the jury to hear an attorney named Robert Costello.
0:41.7	The defense called him yesterday to try and
0:44.0	undermine the credibility of the prosecution's key witness, Michael Cohen.
0:48.0	But today, prosecutors badly undermined his.
0:51.0	They used emails involving Costello sent within weeks of Michael Cohen's arrest by the
0:54.9	FBI in 2018 to show that while Castello was offering Cohen legal advice, his motive seemed
1:01.6	to mirror then President Trump's.
1:03.8	In one email prosecutors read to him,
1:05.6	Costello writes his law partner, quote,
1:08.0	our issue is to get Cohen on the right page
1:10.6	without giving him the appearance
1:12.4	that we are following instructions from
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