It’s jury time. “Three Possible Scenarios” for Donald Trump

On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s lawyers and attorneys presented their closing arguments in state court in Manhattan.

The former president has been indicted in connection with a $130,000 payment by Michael Cohen’s former lawyer to porn actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election campaign.

The verdict in the case is likely to come out on Wednesday.

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Attorney Joshua Steinglass said the jury’s main task was to assess whether Trump covered up payments to Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

But he said jurors must also consider broader political concerns, such as the potential for Trump and his allies, including former National Enquirer tabloid publisher David Becker, to influence the outcome of the election by controlling what information went to voters. “This plan, put together by these people at that time, may have led to the election of President Trump,” Steinglass said.

Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, urged jurors to set aside his client’s personal opinions and decide whether prosecutors had sufficiently proven their case during the trial. “If you were to focus only on the evidence you heard in this courtroom, it would be a very quick and simple decision: an acquittal,” Blanche said.

The attorney argued that Daniel tried to extort money from Trump during the last stretch of the presidential campaign before the November 2016 election by threatening to publicize the alleged affair to the media.

Trump says he did nothing wrong and did not have sex with Daniels.

Whether Daniels tried to extort money from Trump is irrelevant, attorney Steinglass said. His lawyer, Michael Cohen, argued that he broke the law because he hid evidence that he paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet. – You cannot commit voter fraud or falsify business records because you believe you are a victim – he emphasized.

A jury will begin deliberations Wednesday to determine Trump’s guilt or innocence.

“Fakty” TVN’s reporter, Marcin Wrona, pointed out in his report for TVN24 BiS that “no one knows how long the consultations will last.” – However, we know what the possible scenarios are. There are three – he pointed out.

– Scene One: The Guilty. When the twelve judges unanimously decided that Donald Trump was guilty – Wrona said.

– Scene Two: Innocent. Again, the twelve jurors must be unanimous here, he insisted.

– And the third scenario, who knows, maybe not much, in which only one thing is required, there will be only one juror who has so-called reasonable doubts about the guilt of Donald Trump, and then the jury will not be unanimous – he added. As he put it, “This case goes to the trash, which means the process is invalid.” – We will deal with the so-called hung jury – Vrona said.

A case pending in state court in Manhattan is about 130,000. hole Trump paid porn actress Stormi Daniels to keep quiet about their intimate relationship before the 2016 presidential election, which prosecutors allege Trump illegally tried to disguise as payments to Michael Cohen, who brokered the transaction, for legal services.

It carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, although most experts do not expect a prison sentence if the former president is convicted. Along with others, Cohen was convicted. In this case in 2018 and spent 3 years in jail.