Trump's lawyer described Stormy Daniels' claims of an affair as 'false' in his opening statement to the jury
Donald Trump's lawyer may have hurt his case by claiming that the former president never had sex with Stormy Daniels, a former federal prosecutor said.In his opening statement to the jury on Thursday, Todd Blanche described Daniels claims as 'false, false allegations.'Lawyer and New York University law professor Andrew Weissmann said Blanche's opening statement could be trouble for Trump later in the trial.
Weissmann said that the prosecution will then be able to use Blanche's denial in its closing statement to the jury.Prosecutors will tell the jury that the defense produced no evidence to back up its denial of the Trump/Daniels affair, he said.Weissmann said that Blanche may have felt obliged to make the denial for the sake of public consumption, but 'it is going to hurt' later in the trial.
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