Defense rests without ex-President Trump taking the witness stand in his New York hush money trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

29% : Trump says nothing sexual happened between them.
29% : “They have no case,” Trump said in the morning Tuesday before court adjourned.
28% : Prosecutors say they were really reimbursements for a $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels to keep her from going public before the 2016 election with claims of a sexual encounter with Trump.
26% : Trump has pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing in the case.
26% : The defense has suggested that Trump was trying to protect his family, not his campaign, by squelching what he says were false, scurrilous claims.
25% : Trump, the first former American president to be tried criminally, did not stop to speak as he left the courthouse and ignored a question about why he wasn’t testifying.
23% : (Mark Peterson/Pool Photo via AP) Defense attorney Todd Blanche argued that there was nothing illegal about soliciting a tabloid’s help to run positive stories about Trump, run negative stories about his opponents and identify potentially damaging stories before they were published.
10% : Prosecutors have accused Trump of a scheme to bury negative stories to fend off damage to his 2016 presidential campaign against Democrat Hillary Clinton and then falsifying internal business records to cover it up.

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