Why Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche messed up his final arguments.
54 years, 11 months ago

Why Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche messed up his final arguments.

Slate  

Yesterday saw closing arguments in the Manhattan trial of Donald Trump for falsifying business records, the first-ever criminal trial for a former president. He methodically connected the evidence to each element of the crime and reminded jurors how it all supported the prosecution’s theory of the case: “The defendant used his own business records as the vehicle to disguise the reimbursement because he didn’t want anyone finding out about the conspiracy to corrupt the election.” It’s mystifying why Blanche failed to pounce on the fact that during weeks of testimony, prosecutors never even identified which criminal law’s violation they were alleging that Trump committed or concealed by falsifying his records. As Steinglass put it, the plot involved “a whole lot of time, thought, and energy to conceal the truth.” Indeed, the prosecutor walked right through the door Blanche left open: He gave a plainspoken narrative of the election law crimes that Trump and his co-conspirators were concealing: “Once money starts changing hands on behalf of a campaign, that’s federal election campaign finance violations,” he said. Blanche did score rhetorical points in characterizing Cohen as the “MVP of liars.” To his credit, Blanche also reminded jurors that no other witness corroborated Cohen’s testimony that Trump approved the Weisselberg “gross-up” scheme. As Steinglass put it: “If Donald Trump is checking invoices for his decorator, you can bet he’s checking invoices for Michael Cohen.” Blanche rightly emphasized that prosecutors never called Weisselberg and others who helped run the business.

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CNN  

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Politico  

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Raw Story  

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Slate  

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Raw Story  

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Raw Story  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Al Jazeera  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Associated Press  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Independent  

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'Furious': Ex-Trump aide warns judge must be on warpath after latest Truth Social attack
6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Raw Story  

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Trump fires off his own online defense as lawyers address jury in court
6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Raw Story  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Associated Press  

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The last words: What each side said in closing arguments for Trump's New York trial
6 months, 3 weeks ago

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NPR  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Al Jazeera  

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Raw Story  

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Raw Story  

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Prosecutors seek to bar Trump from statements endangering law enforcement in classified records case
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Prosecutors seek to bar Trump from statements endangering law enforcement in classified records case

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Friday asked the judge overseeing the classified documents case against Donald Trump to bar the former president from public statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents” participating in the prosecution. The request to U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon follows a distorted claim by Trump earlier this week that the …

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

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LA Times  

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Donald Trump may be stuck in a Manhattan courtroom, but he knows his favorite legal analysts
7 months ago

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Associated Press  

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Heated hearing in classified documents case as lawyer for Trump co-defendant challenges prosecutors
7 months ago

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Associated Press  

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Trump's ‘defense rests’ without him taking the stand in hush money trial despite prior contrasting claims
7 months ago

Trump's ‘defense rests’ without him taking the stand in hush money trial despite prior contrasting claims

Hindustan Times  

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial. Trump faces 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of an alleged scheme to silence claims of extramarital sexual encounters during his 2016 presidential campaign. Photographer: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Bloomberg “Your honor, the defense rests,” Trump …

Defense rests without Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial
7 months ago

Defense rests without Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial

LA Times  

Former President Trump did not stop to speak to reporters as he left the New York courthouse Tuesday and ignored a question about why he wasn’t testifying. Donald Trump’s lawyers rested their defense Tuesday without the former president taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial. “Your honor, the defense rests,” Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the …

Trump hush-money trial: Prosecution rests, closing arguments likely next week
7 months ago

Trump hush-money trial: Prosecution rests, closing arguments likely next week

The Hindu  

After approximately five weeks, 19 witnesses, reams of documents and a dash of salacious testimony, the prosecution against Donald Trump rested its case on May 20, handing over to the defence, before closing arguments expected next week. Mr. Trump's team immediately sought to undermine key testimony against the former president, who is accused of covering up hush money paid to …

Trump lawyer suggests Trump will not testify as defense signals it will rest
7 months ago

Trump lawyer suggests Trump will not testify as defense signals it will rest

Raw Story  

Donald Trump's legal team signaled Monday that it intended to rest its defense in the former president's hush money trial. After a lunch break, Trump's attorney, Todd Blanche, told Justice Juan Merchan that the defense had one witness — and it was not the former president. He just said they have 'a witness in the back,' but the defense will …

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