(21 May 2024)
POOL
New York – 20 May 2024
1. Trump in criminal court hallway
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 20 May 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
“Donald Trump’s lawyers have rested their defense case in his criminal trial in New York City. Now, this is the trial involving allegations of hush money payments and falsified business records in the logging of reimbursements to his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.”
POOL
New York – 20 May 2024
3. Various still images of Trump in court
ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York – 20 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Sisak, The Associated Press:
“By resting its case, the defense now paves the way for closing arguments and ultimately, jury deliberations. There are a few steps before the jury gets the case, namely those closing arguments, and then the jury will have to be instructed in the law by Judge Juan Merchan before they can go back to a separate room and start deliberating the charges at hand.”
STORYLINE:
Donald Trump’s lawyers have rested their defense in the former president’s New York hush money trial, bringing the case one step closer to final arguments.
The jury was sent home until May 28, when closing arguments are expected. Trump did not stop to speak as he left the courthouse and ignored a question about why he wasn’t testifying.
After more than four weeks of testimony, jurors could begin deliberating as soon as next week to decide whether Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Prosecutors have accused Trump of a scheme to bury negative stories to fend off damage to his 2016 presidential campaign and then falsifying internal business records to cover it up.
Trump, the first former American president to be tried criminally, has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing in the case, which he has slammed as politically motivated.
AP video shot by John Minchillo
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