Donald J. Trump is on trial for 34 felony counts of what could be the dullest sounding crime in New York’s penal code: falsifying business records. Yet, across nine witnesses and two weeks of testimony, jurors have been treated to hours of mesmerizing courtroom theater. There was talk of a sex scandal with a porn […]
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Donald J. Trump’s defense team in his criminal trial spent Thursday on the attack. They portrayed him as an unwitting victim, suggesting that his campaign had been extorted by an unethical Hollywood lawyer who shook him down for hush-money deals. But prosecutors followed up by playing audio for the jury that had been surreptitiously recorded […]
Read MoreTwo voices reverberated in the courtroom. The first was loud, deep and unctuous, the second was casual — until money came up. They were discussing a deal made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence a woman who claimed to have had an extramarital affair with the Republican candidate. The first voice on the recording […]
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