Donald Trump's lawyers urge the judge to throw out his hush money case after prosecution rests

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : "There's no crime," Trump told reporters after arriving at the courthouse Monday.
48% : But when pushed by Blanche, Cohen stood by his recollection of conversations with Trump about the hush money payment to Daniels that's at the center of the case.
46% : Cohen said he gave the firm only $20,000 in cash in a brown paper bag, but he sought reimbursement from Trump for the full amount, pocketing the difference.
37% : "Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own, and he repeated that numerous times," Costello told jurors.
35% : Defense lawyers said they have not decided whether Trump will testify.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
33% : Cohen was the last witness -- at least for now -- for prosecutors, who are trying to prove that Trump sought to bury unflattering stories about himself and then falsified internal business records to cover it up as part of a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
29% : Costello testified that Cohen told him Trump "knew nothing" about the $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels that's at the center of the case.
29% : After more than four weeks of testimony about sex, money, tabloid machinations and the details of Trump's company record-keeping, jurors could begin deliberating as soon as next week to decide whether Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
29% : Trump says nothing sexual happened between them.
27% : Blanche asked about whether Cohen specifically recalled having conversations with Trump about the Daniels matter.
27% : Prosecutors say they were really reimbursements for the payment to Daniels to keep her from going public before the 2016 election with claims of a sexual encounter with Trump.
22% : He admitted on the witness stand to a number of past lies, many of which he claims were meant to protect Trump.
22% : And Trump did not respond to shouted questions from reporters about whether his lawyers have advised him not to take the stand.

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