The jury now will decide Trump's fate in hush money trial, after lengthy closing arguments

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.
53% : Just outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse during summations, the campaign to reelect President Joe Biden held a press conference featuring actor Robert DeNiro and two former U.S. Capitol Police officers who were overwhelmed by the angry mob of Trump supporters who stormed the building on Jan. 6, 2021.
52% : Cohen, the prosecution's key witness, later told the jurors that he wired Daniels $130,000 to secure her signature on a nondisclosure agreement in late October 2016, and that Trump was aware.
51% : Cohen's payment swiftly followed the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump was recorded telling a TV host that his fame allows him to grab women by the genitals.
51% : Further, Cohen testified that Trump was present during conversations to hatch a plan with the Trump Organization's longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, to repay Cohen under the guise of "legal expenses."
47% : Trump, the presumed 2024 Republican presidential nominee, is charged with 34 felonies, one for each of the 11 invoices, 11 checks, and 12 ledger entries that New York state prosecutors allege were cooked-up as routine "legal expenses," hiding what were really reimbursements to Cohen for paying off adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
46% : "Donald Trump has created this," DeNiro said, pointing to the demonstrators.
45% : Daniels, also an adult film director, testified in early May to a 2006 sexual encounter at a Lake Tahoe golf tournament with Trump, which he maintains never happened.
42% : Jason Miller, senior adviser to Trump, held up Tuesday's copy of the New York Post bearing the headline "Nothing to Bragg About," a play on Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's name.
39% : By the time Trump reached the Oval Office and personally signed nine of the 11 checks for Cohen, the then-president was too busy "running the country" to realize what he was signing, Blanche said.
39% : "There is no way that you can find that President Trump knew about this payment at the time it was made without believing the words of Michael Cohen -- period," Blanche told the jurors, according to reporters in the courtroom.
39% : "They stood and put their lives on the line for these low lives, for Trump.
35% : Trump is the first former U.S. president to face trial on criminal charges.
33% : Cohen transformed from a loyal Trump ally into a bitter foe who has published books titled "Disloyal" and "Revenge," and produces a podcast called "Mea Culpa" on which he regularly lambastes Trump.
30% : "President Trump did nothing wrong.
29% : Cohen is "understandably angry that to date, he's the only one who's paid the price for his role in this conspiracy," Blanche told the jurors, according to reporters, who noted Trump was shaking his head.
28% : Donald Trump wants to destroy, not only this city, but the country, and eventually he could destroy the world.
28% : Trump still falsely claims he won the election.
27% : Late Monday, Trump posted in all caps a complaint about the order in which closing arguments would occur -- a routine, well-established series of remarks in trials.
23% : He closed by urging the jurors to not send Trump "to prison" based on Cohen's testimony.
22% : Steinglass attempted to humanize Cohen for the jurors, telling them one can "hardly blame" the former fixer -- who now has a criminal record and no law license -- for selling merchandise including t-shirts depicting Trump in an orange prison jumpsuit.
21% : Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records last year, which prosecutors say was an effort to hide a potential sex scandal, both before and after the 2016 presidential election.
21% : Steinglass started off by telling them the prosecution only needs to prove the following: There were false business records used as part of the conspiracy and that Trump knew about them.
20% : Closing arguments in the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president concluded Tuesday, leaving the jury to now decide if Donald Trump is guilty of faking reimbursement to his personal lawyer for hush money paid to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election.
17% : In his closing statements, Trump attorney Todd Blanche addressed the jury for nearly three hours, arguing that Trump made no such effort to influence the 2016 election by "unlawful means.
16% : The trial's final day of arguments wrapped up after nearly eight hours of closing arguments, during which the defense portrayed Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen as the "M.V.P. of liars" and Trump as a victim of extortion and too busy a leader in 2017 to understand the payments to Cohen.
12% : These actions, he said, were taken on Trump's behalf to defend and shield him; the irony, Steinglass said, is now they are being used against Cohen, again, to protect Trump.
9% : Steinglass leaned into Cohen's seedy past, including his lying to Congress and his jail time for campaign finance violations related to hush money payments to women who alleged extramarital affairs with Trump.
7% : David Pecker, former National Enquirer publisher, testified to coordinating with Trump and Cohen earlier in 2016 to pay off former Playboy model Karen McDougal and bury her story of an alleged affair with Trump.
5% : While no hard contract existed between Trump and Cohen at the time, Blanche argued that the two had entered into an "oral" retainer agreement, and that Cohen was lying about how much work he was actually doing for Trump.

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