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NonilexJustice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Merchan</a> is back on the bench. He asks the attys, “Where do we stand?”Prosecutor <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> says that while they have “made a lot of progress,” they need his help to sort out which portions of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/transcript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transcript</a> should be read back to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/jury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jury</a>.Jurors asked for 4 portions — 3 from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pecker</a>’s testimony & 1 from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a>.Defense & prosecution aren’t agreeing on Pecker's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTowerMeeting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTowerMeeting</a> testimony.Steinglass: "We disagree about where it ends."<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> says that soon it will be time to deliberate and that the jurors should return & find <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> guilty on all 34 counts against him. He asks that, in the interest of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> & the state of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewYork</a>, the jurors find Trump guilty. He thanks the jurors for their time & he’s done.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClosingArguments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClosingArguments</a> have ended in the first <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> trial of an American president.Tomorrow, the jury will receive instructions on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> from the judge, & then begin their deliberations.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> says that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intent</a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/defraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#defraud</a> could not be any clearer, arguing that Trump could have simply paid <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a> himself, but instead devised an elaborate scheme to pay Daniels secretly that required the involvement of at least 10 other people. “Everything Mr. Trump & his cohorts did in this case was cloaked in lies,” Steinglass says, adding, “The name of the game was concealment, & all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> again shows the jury People’s Exhibit 350, a chart created by the prosecutors that summarizes the 34 counts. Earlier, Steinglass specifically called out this exhibit & told the jury that they could request to see this document during their deliberations. It will be interesting to see if they take him up on that when they start to deliberate tomorrow.Steinglass says the prosecution presented a “mountain of evidence” related to its theory of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Tower <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> tells the jurors that thejudge will explain reasonable doubt to them and & them to listen carefully. He reminds them of the concept of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AccessorialLiability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AccessorialLiability</a>: That a person who directs someone to commit a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a> is equally guilty of that crime. Steinglass brings up his preferred analogy for this, the husband who hires a hitman to kill his wife. The defense objects & the judge sustains it: It is his role to explain the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>, not Steinglass’s.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> says that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> just wanted to be reimbursed & had no reason to push for creating false business records. “The defendant was the beneficiary of this entire scheme,” Steinglass says. “He was the one trying to get elected.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> offers 3 rebuttals of the defense’s argument that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> acted on his own, without Trump’s knowledge.1. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> was a micromanager who was directly involved w/the details both of his business and his political campaign.2. Cohen was & is a self-promoter & it “defies all common sense” that he’d undertake these extensive efforts on behalf of Trump & keep it to himself.3. Trump was the only one who would have benefitted from the scheme.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> makes a specific argument — that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> wasn’t just freelancing, as the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> lawyers have suggested repeatedly trying to distance Trump from the events in the case. It’s a microcosm of scenarios we’ve seen over & over w/Trump for decades. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SEC</a> investigators are told that staffers made mistakes, or reporters are told Trump was never really involved in specific controversies & aides actually had.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> reviews the case for what may be the final time, starting w/the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Tower meeting. So this is an abridged version of his already abridged timeline, reducing the case down to its key elements.Steinglass presents the very many moments at which Trump spoke to key players in this series of events around the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a> payment.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> began prosecution’s closing arguments at around 2:07 PM ET.Steinglass takes jurors through Trump’s own words in 2018, when he described the payments to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> as “reimbursements.”Steinglass displays a tweet from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, but he also said it in a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FoxNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoxNews</a> interview that summer.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> highlights other key testimony, including <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HopeHicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HopeHicks</a>'s remarks that it would have been “out of character” for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> to have made that payment out of the kindness of his heart — meaning, without approval from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>.Steinglass is linking Trump to each & every action that prosecutors say led to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a>, the falsification of 34 business records related to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HushMoney</a> payment to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> says there’s no reason to believe that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> didn’t alert <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a>’s story in early Oct 2016.He reviews the evidence from that month that corroborates Cohen’s testimony, including his calls w/Trump.Steinglass rhetorically asks, “Is this timing just all a coincidence, every single one of these things?” Then says, “Mr. Trump is being kept abreast of every development.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a>, who had stuck to a chronological timeline, goes back to 2016 to connect <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> to each element that prosecutors say is a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crime</a>. He argues that David <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Pecker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pecker</a> corroborated the idea that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a> had kept Trump up to date on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HushMoney</a> payments at every step. Cohen, Steinglass says, “is not some rogue actor here.”Steinglass talks about the infamous tape of Trump & Micahel Cohen discussing the payment to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KarenMcDougal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KarenMcDougal</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

NonilexBreak over. Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Merchan</a> thanks the jurors for their flexibility & calls <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> back to the lectern. Before they returned, the judge told Steinglass that he needed to wrap up — at least for the day — by 8PM (wuh?). If he does not conclude by then, it sounded as if it was possible that Steinglass would have to conclude tomorrow.Wonder how the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NodFarter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NodFarter</a> aka <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> will hold up…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HushMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobTactics</a>

NonilexWith the jury out of the room, the prosecution & defense argue about whether <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> can talk about <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a>’s state of mind.Justice <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merchan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Merchan</a> hears the lawyers out & sides w/the defense, telling Steinglass that he’s gone as far as he needs to go in talking about Daniels being <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/intimidated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intimidated</a> by Trump, & that no further argument to that effect need be made.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HushMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobTactics</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a>: “Ask yourselves, why did the defendant lie about this & why did he do it while the grand jury was considering charges in this case?”Steinglass asks why, if <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> simply had a business relationship w/ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a>, he attacked her in March 2023 when she made public that she had appeared before the grand jury.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CatchAndKill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatchAndKill</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conspiracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conspiracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HushMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HushMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobTactics</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> continues the argument on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WitnessIntimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WitnessIntimidation</a>, noting that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> attacked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StormyDaniels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StormyDaniels</a> on social media the same day she had an interview w/the Manhattan DA’s office. Steinglass argues that the post contains a lie — in it, Trump said that he hadn’t seen or spoken to Daniels since meeting her on a golf course in 2006.Steinglass says that the jury knows it to be a lie because <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RhonaGraff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RhonaGraff</a>, Trump’s loyal asst, testified that Daniels had met w/Trump at Trump Tower.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> again reads passages of obe of Trump’s books, in which he wrote that he can’t stomach disloyalty. Steinglass argues that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> disparages <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/witnesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#witnesses</a> who speak out against him in order to discourage other witnesses from coming forward.Steinglass reads a Truth Social post of Trump’s from Aug 2023, in which he wrote in all capital letters: “if you go after me, I”m coming after you.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#criminal</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WitnessIntimidation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WitnessIntimidation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StochasticTerrorism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MobTactics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MobTactics</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Steinglass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Steinglass</a> moves to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MichaelCohen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MichaelCohen</a>’s guilty plea to federal crimes. When <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hoffinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hoffinger</a> questioned Cohen about the pleas, she asked if he’d committed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/crimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#crimes</a> at Trump’s behest. Cohen said that he had.Steinglass reads portions of that testimony aloud, before pivoting to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s tweets blasting Cohen right after he pleaded guilty.Steinglass argues the tweets were a message to other witnesses. “Cooperate, & you will face the wrath of Donald Trump.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpTrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpTrial</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a>

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