Closing arguments are set to begin next week.
Yahoo News Staff and Dylan Stableford
Updated Tue, May 21, 2024 at 6:38 PM GMT
Former President Donald Trump speaks to the media outside Manhattan criminal court on Tuesday. (Mark Peterson/Pool via Getty Images) (Pool via Getty Images)
Donald Trump’s hush money trial resumed Tuesday in Manhattan criminal court, where defense attorneys rested their case without calling the former president to testify in his historic criminal trial. Closing arguments are scheduled to begin next week.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and so-called fixer turned foe, concluded his testimony Monday after spending four days on the witness stand. Under cross-examination by the defense on Monday, Cohen admitted he stole tens of thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization — adding to questions about his credibility.
As has been the case over the last few weeks of the trial, Trump was joined in court Monday by a number of high profile supporters, including the lawyer Alan Dershowitz and a former leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in New York.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, whose alleged sexual affair with him threatened to torpedo his 2016 presidential bid.