Prosecution rests in Trump trial; judge admonishes defense witness for behavior on stand

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60% : Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | SoundStack | All Of Our PodcastsBut 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.
52% : "There's no crime," Trump told reporters after arriving at the courthouse Monday.
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.
42% : See the full list Marion could get an Ollie's Bargain Store Business owners, professionals gather in Marion to 'Connect and Create'The prosecution rested its case earlier Monday after several days of testimony from Cohen, Trump's loyal attorney-turned-adversary whom the defense sought to paint as a serial fabulist who is on a revenge campaign aimed at taking down Trump.
38% : Four months later, Cohen pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and other charges and told a court that Trump had directed him to arrange the Daniels payment.
36% : "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 testified.
35% : Defense lawyers said they have not decided whether Trump will testify.
34% : Trump has pleaded not guilty.
33% : Costello tesified 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.
31% : After The Wall Street Journal reported in January 2018 that Cohen had arranged the payout to the porn actor more than a year earlier, Cohen told journalists, friends and others that Trump had been in the dark about the arrangement.
29% : After more than four weeks of testimony about sex, money, tabloid machinations and the details of Trump's company recordkeeping, 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.
25% : Cohen tied Trump directly to the hush money scheme, recounting meetings and conversations with his then-boss about stifling negative stories in the waning weeks of the 2016 campaign.
22% : And Trump did not respond to shouted questions from reporters about whether his lawyers have advised him not to take the stand.
21% : Blanche grilled Cohen about his initial public denials that Trump knew about the Daniels payoff.
15% : Cohen's testimony underscores the risk of prosecutors' reliance on the now-disbarred attorney, who admitted on the witness stand to a number of past lies, many of which he claims were meant to protect Trump.

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