How a teen crank call could save Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : "That was perhaps the best part of the trial for Trump and gives him a lot to play with in closing arguments.
52% : "This is the call that you testified about on Tuesday that you had a conversation with President Trump," Blanche said, to which Cohen responded that "part of it" was about the harassment calls noted in the text message, saying, "I knew that Keith was with Trump at the time.
51% : Cohen told the court that he spoke on the phone with Trump about the payment before sending the money to Daniels.
35% : "Ring told Newsweek that the phone call was central to the prosecution's claim that Trump knew in advance that Cohen was to pay hush money to Daniels.
31% : Ring said that Cohen, the chief prosecution witness, told the jury about a phone call with Trump about the Daniels payment that turned out to be a phone call to Trump's bodyguard about crank calls Cohen was getting from a teenager.
28% : Following an investigation by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office, Trump was indicted in March 2023 on 34 counts of falsifying business records relating to hush money paid to adult film star Stormy Daniels by Cohen during Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
24% : Trump, the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, became the first former president in U.S. history to stand trial in a criminal case last month.
20% : Daniels alleged she had an affair with Trump in 2006, which he has denied.
19% : In a text, Cohen asked Schiller: "Who can I speak to about harassing calls to my phone and office?"Blanche accused Cohen of inventing a conversation with Trump about Daniels that was, in reality, a conversation with Schiller about the prank phone calls.
16% : "Trump's team will hammer away at the fact Cohen claimed he told Trump about the Stormy Daniels payoff in the critical phone call that really turned out to be about a teenage crank caller," Ring said.

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