Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is 'greatest liar of all times,' defense attorney tells jury in hush money trial

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59% : Three of Trump's children were also in attendance -- Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Tiffany Trump.
56% : "They had been doing it for President Trump since the 90s.
49% : "The prosecution will say that you know that President Trump saw all of these invoices because she testified that she stapled the invoices to the checks" when she sent them to Washington, D.C.," Blanche told the jury.
44% : Cohen was still acting as Trump's personal attorney at the time, Blanche argued, and it's preposterous to believe that Cohen would have worked for free, despite Cohen's testimony that he was making money from various entities at the time by trading on his connection to Trump, then the newly minted president.
41% : Or that the $420,000 that Trump paid Cohen, at a rate of $35,000 monthly, was Cohen's payment for working as Trump's personal attorney?
39% : The notion that Trump, Cohen and Pecker cooked up a conspiracy to impact the presidential election during an Aug. 15, 2015 meeting at Trump Tower to "catch and kill" negative stories about Trump doesn't align with trial testimony, that included Pecker testifying that the National Enquirer's parent company -- American Media Inc. -- had long been in the practice of buying and burying stories for celebrities.
38% : "Trump was in the White House during this period and far removed from the running of his company, Blanche argued.
38% : "Blanche pointed out that Trump repeatedly disclosed the payments to Cohen to various entities, including the Internal Revenue Service.
37% : "President Trump was busy running the country," said Blanche."[White
34% : "Blanche, returning to a point he attempted to make during his cross-examination of Cohen, told the jury that Cohen perjured himself when he testified that he discussed the hush money payment agreement on a 90-second phone call with Trump on Oct. 24, 2016, which was patched through by Schiller, then Trump's bodyguard.
32% : You can't convict President Trump because sometimes without anything specific at all to the charges in this case that he sometimes looked at invoices.
30% : House aide] Ms. Westerhout testified that sometimes President Trump looked at the checks, sometimes he didn't. ...
26% : Trump faces up to four years in prison if convicted, but could receive no jail time as a first-time offender in a white-collar case.
25% : She never spoke to President Trump.
25% : Period," said Blanche.Blanche asked the jury to think about what made more sense -- that Trump, as the prosecution alleges, reimbursed Cohen triple the $130,000 paid to Daniels, although Trump was described as penny-pinching by multiple witnesses?
25% : "Blanche added: "You cannot convict President Trump beyond a reasonable doubt based on the testimony of Michael Cohen.
24% : "Blanche accused Cohen of lying about several parts of his testimony, and questioned a voice recording that Cohen made of Trump, in which they allegedly discussed a hush money payment to another woman, former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said to have had an affair with Trump.
23% : "Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of felony falsifying business records as part of what prosecutors alleged was a scheme to cover-up the payment of hush money to adult film actress Daniels, who testified -- in sometimes graphic detail -- that she had a sexual encounter with Trump at a celebrity golf tournament in 2016, during which Trump did not wear protection.
22% : "President Trump is innocent," said Trump attorney Todd Blanche.
21% : "Earlier in his summation, Blanche emphasized the charges against Trump are based on documents -- not a sexual liaison or the inner workings of the tabloid industry -- which he argued shows that Trump, then the leader of the free world, had no involvement in the company's record-keeping.
20% : "This is not about an encounter with Stormy Daniels 18 years ago -- an account that President Trump has denied.
18% : "Blanche, in a summation that lasted nearly three hours, accused the prosecution's star witness Michael Cohen, a Lawrence native who was Trump's personal attorney, of lying while on the stand and cautioned the jury against convicting Trump based on the word of the now-disbarred attorney.
18% : "The idea that President Trump would agree to pay Cohen $420,000 even though he only owed him $130,000 is absurd.
13% : Blanche cautioned jurors that they have "no idea about the integrity of this file" in which Trump is heard saying to pay "cash.""There's no way that you can believe that President Trump knew about this payment without believing the words of Michael Cohen," said Blanche.
5% : Trump's wife, Melania Trump -- who had only months before given birth to Trump's youngest son, Barron, now 18, at the time that Daniels alleged she bedded Trump -- was not.Blanche, in his summation, seized on the testimony of Trump employees to disprove that Trump directed the falsification of the records -- vouchers, invoices and checks -- with the intent to defraud, which jurors have to find in order to convict Trump.
2% : Prosecutors have said the cover-up was part of a pattern of ''catch and kill" schemes, the heart of a "criminal conspiracy" between Trump, Cohen and supermarket tabloid publisher David Pecker, to buy negative stories about Trump and bury them as he sought the presidency against Hillary Clinton.

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