Trump trial updates: Michael Cohen's testimony wraps, prosecution rests and defense witness and judge have a tense exchange

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47% : Blanche said the defense doesn't dispute that Trump and Schiller were together that evening, according to NBC News.
45% : Cohen testified that RedFinch, a tech company hired to rig online polls in favor of Trump, was owed $50,000 for its services.
40% : Cohen says it's better for him if Trump doesn't get convicted: During cross-examination, Blanche asked Cohen, "Do you have a financial interest in the outcome of this case?"
40% : He testified "it's better" if Trump is found not guilty because it "gives me more to talk about in the future," referring to his financial gain from talking about the trial on his podcast and TikTok account.
39% : Cohen was also asked if he would financially benefit if Trump is convicted.
36% : The Oct. 24, 2016, call: Cohen previously testified that he called Keith Schiller -- Trump's then bodyguard -- on Oct. 24, 2016, so he could talk to Trump about moving forward with the Daniels hush money payment.
35% : One of the most revealing pieces of information was that Cohen admitted under oath to stealing from the Trump Organization, pocketing part of an amount included in his $420,000 reimbursement payments owed to a tech firm that rigged online polls in favor of Trump.
35% : Costello testified that Cohen told him "numerous times" that Trump didn't know anything about the hush money payment.
34% : On redirect, the prosecution sought to admit a photo, which is a still from a C-SPAN video, that shows Trump's bodyguard with Trump just minutes before the phone call in question took place.
33% : Remember: The prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump knew about and directed the Daniels hush money reimbursement payments to Cohen.
28% : The line of questioning mainly focused on key testimony that Cohen spoke with Trump by phone in October 2016 confirming that the Stormy Daniels hush money deal was locked down.
28% : On Monday, Trump's former attorney -- and a vocal critic of Michael Cohen -- Alan Dershowitz showed up to support the former president, along with Bernard Kerik, New York's former police commissioner pardoned by Trump, a former leader of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in New York and Rep. Andrew Clyde, a Georgia Republican.
25% : This is Yahoo News' succinct update on the criminal and civil cases against Trump.
20% : Trump lawyer Todd Blanche continued to grill Cohen for a third day of cross-examination and sought to depict the prosecution's key witness as an opportunist who wants to make money off of his relationship with Trump.

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