NYC judge in Trump hush money case poised to decide whether to uphold guilty verdicts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

42% : The anonymous jury determined Trump lied about why he was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cohen in 2017 to cover up the plot -- claiming a series of checks covered Cohen's "legal services" when in reality he was reimbursing his then-lawyer for silencing a porn star about a seedy extramarital encounter so voters wouldn't learn about it.
31% : The historic criminal case, one of four brought against Trump after his first term, saw him become the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime.
30% : The Justice Department is reportedly winding down the two federal cases against Trump, and legal experts believe Georgia prosecutors' case against him is unlikely to see a revival before he takes office.
28% : Before the election, Merchan said he'd sentence Trump on Nov. 26
24% : "They say the jury should never have heard from former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, who testified about Trump privately acknowledging to her in 2018 that Cohen had paid off Daniels before the 2016 election -- and "that it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election.
20% : "They have argued that the judge shouldn't have allowed prosecutors to call as a witness Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's former Oval Office aide, who testified about how Trump liked to sign things he'd first read himself with "a Sharpie or a felt-tip pen.
16% : "Trump's lawyers have also argued that tweets that Trump published on his presidential account on Twitter, now known as "X," about Cohen should have been prohibited.
10% : The seven men and five women who declared Trump a felon returned their verdicts on May 30 after hearing from 22 witnesses about a plot to corrupt the 2016 presidential election devised among Trump, his former fixer Michael Cohen and tabloid publisher David Pecker, and then cover it up.

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