The Trump trial is hurtling to a close. Michael Cohen is set to finish today. Trump's team set they will finish with Cohen today. Then the prosecution will ask more question on redirect, but he is their last witness.
Trump's legal team said last week they are deciding if Trump testifies and may not put up any other witnesses.
But this morning said with the holiday weekend coming up, they will not get to summations until after the holiday
Justice Merchan: Looks like evidence will end this week, with summations next Tuesday.
Before the Did you steal money from the Trump Org question, the best punch Trump's lawyers threw was a question about a phone call Cohen said he had with Trump. He said he called Keith Schiller and Schiller handed the phone to Trump. It was a super short call and Trump's lawyers showed texts from Cohen to Schiller suggesting he only spoke to Schiller about another subject.
I think Cohen said this was the call he told Trump he took care of the Stormy Daniels thing. IIRC.
Prosecutors will ask about that after lunch and they are arguing now about introducing photos from CNN of Trump and Schiller.
Actually CSPAN. Judge would not let them show the video because the CSPAN expert from weeks ago didn't talk about this video
But the judge lets a picture in. Trump is with Schiller so it was possible Cohen called Schiller and spoke to Trump.
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