Trump trial reside updates: Jury deliberations proceed in hush cash case | EUROtoday

Gustaf Kilander seems to be on the numbers:

Stephanie Grisham, who served as White House Press Secretary from 2019 to 2021, instructed CNN {that a} reporter’s relentless questions concerning the whereabouts of Melania “absolutely” perturbs the previous president.

Ariana Baio has the story:

The former president posted:

Does anyone ask why the Government, beneath Soros backed District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, failed to herald a Long List of Witnesses that they so viciously threatened all people with? I’m not allowed to say the names BECAUSE OF THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER THAT I AM UNDER, however there are loads. The prosecutors didn’t use them as a result of these individuals would have been very unhealthy for the Government’s Case! But bear in mind, that is all beneath the auspices of the DOJ and White House, for the aim of Election Interference – These are the Thugs and Monsters who’re destroying our Country.

Mr Trump’s defence introduced two witnesses (one a paralegal from the legislation agency) and opted to not convey any others together with the defendant himself.

On the most recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!broadcast hours after the historic felony hush cash trial was turned over to the jury, the late present host mentioned the explosive last days of the trial, together with the absence of former First Lady Melania Trump and the looks of Hollywood star Robert De Niro.

Mike Bedigan studies from Los Angeles:

Here’s the decide’s condensed rationalization of what the jury wants to seek out past an inexpensive doubt for a responsible verdict:

In order so that you can discover the defendant responsible of the crime of Falsifying Business Records within the First Degree beneath Count 1 of the Indictment, the People are required to show, from all the proof within the case, past an inexpensive doubt, every of the next two components:

1. That on or about February 14, 2017, within the county of New York and elsewhere, the defendant, personally, or by appearing in live performance with one other individual or individuals, made or precipitated a false entry within the enterprise data of an enterprise, particularly, an bill from Michael Cohen dated February 14, 2017, marked as a report of the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, and stored or maintained by the Trump Organization; and

2. That the defendant did so with intent to defraud that included an intent to commit one other crime or to help or conceal the fee thereof.

If you discover the People have confirmed past an inexpensive doubt every of these two components, you should discover the defendant responsible of this crime. If you discover the People haven’t confirmed past an inexpensive doubt both one or each of these two components, you should discover the defendants not responsible of this crime.

And for the remaining 33 counts:

There are thirty-three remaining counts within the indictment. Each for Falsifying Business Records within the First Degree and every occurring in New York County. The solely distinction is that every rely pertains to a special enterprise report and presumably a special date.

Reminder: The jury doesn’t have the choice to convict him solely on misdemeanor counts: the falsifying enterprise data that aren’t in service of committing one other underlying crime.

Trump’s attorneys by no means requested and the decide’s instructions don’t say they’ll.