Jury deliberations set to begin in Trump hush money trial
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Aysha Bagchi has the latest after closing arguments in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial wrapped up.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, May 29th, 2024. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:20.0 | Today jury deliberations are set to begin in Donald Trump's hush money trial. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus we look at the latest data around P-fast chemicals and NASA announces the discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet. |
| 0:37.6 | Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial moved to closing arguments yesterday |
| 0:41.9 | as the historic case inches closer to a verdict. |
| 0:45.2 | I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Aisha Bogchi for the latest. |
| 0:50.3 | Aisha, thanks for wrapping on. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm glad to be here, Taylor. |
| 0:53.6 | The defense gave closing arguments first. |
| 0:56.2 | What did these center on and did anything stand out to you in particular? |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, the defense gave closing arguments that lasted more than two hours, so they were pretty lengthy. |
| 1:05.0 | And the biggest point that Trump's lawyer, Todd Blanch, hammered home, was all about Michael Cohen. |
| 1:11.0 | That wasn't a big surprise. |
| 1:12.0 | He was sort of the prosecution star witness, |
| 1:14.8 | kind of a personal nemesis of Trump. And also he had the most to say during the |
| 1:19.2 | trial about Trump's alleged behavior in relation to these charges. |
| 1:24.0 | Blanch created a term of art for Cohen called the Galoat, the greatest liar of all time, |
| 1:29.0 | a play on the word goat, greatest of all time. |
| 1:32.0 | So he really went after Cohen is a liar. He called |
| 1:34.8 | Cohen an MVP of liars. He said really there is little reason for jurors to |
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