Trump's lawyers rested their case after calling just 2 witnesses. Experts say that's not unusual

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : Trump has been charged with falsifying records at his company in order to disguise the true nature of payments made in 2017 to one of his lawyers, Michael Cohen.
36% : But Weisselberg was sentenced last month to five months in jail for lying under oath during his testimony in the civil fraud lawsuit brought against Trump by New York's attorney general.
33% : Cohen testified that Trump knew all about the scheme to pay off Daniels.
29% : Trump, who denies Daniels' account, has said the company properly classified them as legal expenses.
29% : "There was no guarantee that if Trump testified that he would stay on point and not go completely off script in ways that would be, at best, not helpful to the defense and, at worst, harmful to them," said Richard Serafini, a criminal defense attorney in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and former prosecutor with the U.S. Justice Department.
29% : Costello testified that Cohen told him at the time that Trump knew nothing about $130,000 in hush money paid to Daniels.
28% : And while Trump has for weeks dangled the prospect of testifying, legal experts say that was never likely to happen.
23% : "I'm not sure that Costello moved the needle in favor of Trump," said Mark Bederow, a New York criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney's office.

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