As closing arguments began in the former president’s historic trial, the Hollywood star made a surprise appearance in Lower Manhattan.
US President Joe Biden has made a rare intervention in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, deploying Hollywood actor Robert De Niro to unleash on his Republican rival outside the court where a jury is set to decide his fate.
“People thought they could control Hitler, thought they could control Mussolini, it didn’t happen,” said the“A dictator is a dictator, and that’s what Trump wants to do and be.” However, amid polls showing that Biden is trailing in key battleground states – with voter discontent over issues including the war in Gaza, the border crisis, and the president’s age – the Democrats have sought to recalibrate, prompting Trump’s team to hit back.“What you just heard from is a desperate and failing and pathetic campaign who knows that they are losing,” spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in response.
Prosecutors say Trump directed the payment to stop the scandal derailing his chances of becoming president in 2016, and that Trump later reimbursed Cohen when he was president, but disguised the payment as a legal retainer, in violation of the law. “This started out as an extortion. There’s no doubt about that, and it ended very well for Ms Daniels – financially speaking,” Blanche said.Prosecutor Josh Steinglass began his closing argument by reminding the jury that at its heart, the case against Trump is about “a conspiracy and a cover-up.”
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