Trump Attorney Says Trial Witness ‘Lied,’ Tells Jury to Find Him Not Guilty

Published on May 28, 2024

Former President Donald Trump’s attorney on Tuesday said a key witness in his New York criminal trial lied to the jury, while saying that his client is innocent and broke no laws. The remarks were made during closing arguments in the case in which the former president is accused of 34 counts of falsifying business records. Defense attorney Todd Blanche told the jury that the prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, a former Trump associate and lawyer, lied to the court about several matters. At one point, he said that Mr. Cohen lied about speaking to President Trump about an Oct. 24, 2016, phone call regarding an arrangement to pay off an adult film performer, Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence about an alleged affair that the former president has denied....

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