Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche has used his closing argument to play down the nature of his client's alleged crimes and insist the case is merely about "documents," The New York Times reported.
The angle Blanche seems to be gunning for is that Trump was so busy being a president that he couldn’t have possibly known about much else happening under his nose. The defense lawyer is trying to paint a picture of Trump spending long days in the Oval Office, seeking to distance the former president from the documents in question, including checks he signed to reimburse Michael Cohen. Blanche has also emphasized to the jury that Trump used to be an American president, seeming to convey not just that he was busy, but that jurors should think twice before convicting someone of such stature
