Judge in Trump's hush money trial threatens to throw witness out of court

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41% : (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)Donald Trump, far left, watches as defense attorney Todd Blanche, at podium, cross examines Michael Cohen on the witness stand with Judge Juan Merchan presiding in Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 20, 2024, in New York.
40% : "But you think he's going to fool 12 New Yorkers into believing this lie?"Cohen was the last witness -- at least for now -- for prosecutors, who are trying to prove that Trump sought to bury unflattering stories about himself and then falsified internal business records to cover it up as part of a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election.
37% : "Michael Cohen said numerous times that President Trump knew nothing about those payments, that he did this on his own, and he repeated that numerous times," Costello told jurors.
34% : (Elizabeth Williams via AP)Donald Trump, far left, takes notes as Michael Cohen, right, testifies on redirect, questioned by assistant district attorney Susan Hoffinger, with Judge Juan Merchan presiding in Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 20, 2024, in New York.
33% : The defense has painted Cohen as a media-obsessed liar who is on a revenge mission aimed at taking down Trump.
31% : They have not said definitively that Trump won't testify, but that's the clearest indication yet that he will waive his right to take the stand in his own defense.
29% : Costello testified Cohen told him Trump "knew nothing" about the $130,000 hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels that's at the center of the case.
29% : After more than four weeks of testimony about sex, money, tabloid machinations and the details of Trump's company record-keeping, jurors could begin deliberating as soon as next week to decide whether Trump is guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.

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