The jury heard his voice, saw his tweets and watched footage of him campaigning for the presidency. But in the end, the 12 New Yorkers weighing the fate of Donald J. Trump did not see him testify. On Tuesday, the defense rested its case after Mr. Trump declined to take the stand at his own…
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News Opinion | How Trump’s Hush-Money Case Failed to Capture America’s Imagination
If I’d pictured Donald Trump’s first criminal trial a few years ago, I’d have imagined the biggest, splashiest story in the world. Instead, as we lurch toward a verdict that could brand the presumptive Republican nominee a felon and possibly even send him to prison, a strange sense of anticlimax hangs over the whole affair….
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News Michael Cohen and Todd Blanche Match Wits in Trump Hush-Money Trial
Donald J. Trump’s lawyers on Thursday took their best shot at Michael D. Cohen, the star witness in the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan, grilling Mr. Cohen about a medley of misrepresentations, manipulations and outright lies. Seeking to destroy Mr. Cohen’s credibility, a defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, portrayed him as an unrepentant criminal and…
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News Trump’s Hush-Money Trial: 4 Key Moments That Defined the Week
In the past week of testimony in Donald J. Trump’s criminal trial, prosecutors were tying their case together, with two of the most important witnesses — a porn star and Mr. Trump’s one-time fixer — testifying just days apart. Michael D. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, testified for over nine hours, saying…
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News Todd Blanche, Trump’s Lawyer in Hush-Money Trial, Cross-Examines Cohen
Donald J. Trump’s defense lawyer had waited a day and a half for this moment, to rise and begin the cross-examination of the prosecution’s star witness. Right out of the gate, he tried to set the tone for how the proceedings would unfold. Did you, Todd Blanche asked Michael D. Cohen, go on TikTok and…
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News Cohen Lays Out Hush-Money Plot, and Protest Shadows Israeli Holiday
Plus, a diss track tops the charts. Related Posts Secretary Austin meets with Israeli, Ukrainian leaders amid ongoing wars U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin spoke with his counterparts in Israel and Ukraine on Saturday as the U.S. government Read more Hundreds of Thousands Protest Spanish Prime Minister’s Deal With Separatists Previous demonstrations in recent…
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News Cohen Says Trump’s Hush-Money Decisions Were Driven by Worries About Female Voters
The striking amount of time and energy that went into covering up Donald J. Trump’s alleged affairs with women in the run-up to the 2016 election, and the panic among his aides over their impact on female voters, returned front and center in the testimony of Michael D. Cohen on Monday. Mr. Cohen and a…
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News Michael Cohen, Key to Trump Trial, Tells Jurors of Seedy Hush-Money Plot
The bargain with Ms. Daniels, hashed out in the campaign’s final month, was less smooth. Mr. Pecker refused to pay her, putting the onus on Mr. Trump, and therefore Mr. Cohen. When Mr. Trump was slow to decide, hoping the threat would subside after Election Day, Mr. Cohen said that he used every imaginable excuse…
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News Michael Cohen Begins Testimony in Trump’s Hush-Money Trial: 5 Takeaways
Michael D. Cohen, once one of Donald J. Trump’s closest confidants and his loyal protector, offered an account Monday that could convict the man he used to refer to as “boss” and now calls an enemy. Testifying in the first criminal trial of an American president, Mr. Cohen said that he had made a $130,000…
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News Trump Calls for Allies’ Support During Hush-Money Testimony
As he walks into the courtroom at 9:30 a.m. each day of his trial, Donald J. Trump scans the benches for familiar faces. He has glared at George Conway, an antagonist who is reporting on the former president’s criminal case for The Atlantic magazine. He smiled at Greg Kelly, a reliably pro-Trump host on Newsmax,…
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