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Former President Donald Trump sits in a courtroom next to his lawyer Todd Blanche, right, before the start of the day’s proceedings in the Manhattan Criminal court, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in New York. Lawyers for former President Donald Trump rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money criminal trial, moving the case closer to the moment the jury will begin deciding his fate.
As he left a news conference with supporters of the former president outside the courthouse, Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. defended his father’s decision not to testify. Merchan noted that closing arguments would normally follow immediately after the defense rested, but he expects them in this case to take at least a day and, given the impending Memorial Day holiday, “there’s no way to do all that’s needed” before then.Prosecutors have accused Trump of a scheme to bury negative stories to fend off damage to his 2016 presidential campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton and then falsifying internal business records to cover it up.
Asked who those “friends in high places” were, Costello said he was talking about Trump, then the president.
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