'The people rest' - and no Trump testimony

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Wow," Trump told reporters outside the courtroom.
49% : Cohen also admitted he has a financial interest in the case's outcome - though he said that he has a stake in the case no matter what its outcome because he talks about it on his podcast and other platforms.Blanche also offered an alternative accounting for why Cohen was paid so much by Trump in 2017 that didn't have to do with his $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels, arguing that Cohen tried to bump up his legal work salary in 2016 to close to $150,000, what he had made the previous year.
38% : Cohen said he talked to Trump 'more than 20' times about Daniels in October 2016When prosecutors asked approximately how many times he'd talked directly with Trump about the Daniels situation in October 2016, he responded: "More than 20."He also told prosecutors that he'd lied when he wrote in a February 2018 letter to the Federal Election Commission that his payment to Daniels wasn't a campaign contribution or expenditure.
37% : He testified - once again - that he would not have paid Daniels $130,000 if Trump hadn't signed off on the plan, "because I wanted to ensure that I'd get my funds back".
35% : Without saying so explicitly, he acknowledged that Trump won't testify.
28% : Trump has teased possible testimony for months.
28% : After court concluded for the day, Trump potentially violated the gag order that prohibits him from talking about witnesses.
27% : This revelation came on the day prosecutors finished laying out their case against Trump, after concluding a second round of questions of star witness Michael Cohen.
26% : He testified that the first time he met Cohen, Cohen repeatedly told him: "I swear to God, Bob, I don't have anything on Donald Trump.
23% : That's significant because prosecutors need to show Trump falsified business records in furtherance of another crime - in this case, campaign finance violations - to get the jury to convict Trump of felonies.
20% : The jury will then deliberate whether Trump broke the law.
19% : Cohen said that he'd paid the IT company RedFinch $20,000 for services rendered when Trump refused to pay them himself, then asked for $50,000 in reimbursements from Trump.
13% : After jurors were let go for the day, Trump's attorneys moved to have Merchan dismiss the charges before jury deliberations, arguing that there was no evidence that Trump had committed the crimes.
7% : 'No doubt' Trump signed offWhen prosecutors asked Cohen if he had "any doubt" that he had a conversation with Trump in which he was told to work out his payback with Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg, he said he had "no doubt".

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