Trump lawyer Todd Blanche used his closing arguments to continue to attack former Trump fixer Michael Cohen’s credibility – a strategy that a legal expert called both expected and central to the defense’s push to distance the former president from the alleged scheme to disguise hush-money reimbursements as legal fees.
Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass argued that voters in the 2016 presidential election should have been able to weigh whether Trump slept with an adult film star before they went to the polls. Steinglass said the campaign killed such salacious stories by falsifying business records that concealed the true purpose of payments to Cohen — all with the intent to defraud the public and ensure his candidacy.
