In a baffling closing argument, Trump attorney Todd Blanche used DA's evidence against his own client

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Each bolsters the prosecution's case: that Trump knew full well that the $130,000 he paid Cohen in installments throughout 2017 was for reimbursement, not legal fees as his business- record entries falsely claimed.
44% : Prosecutors say Trump falsified 34 business records to hide a year's worth of reimbursement payments to his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, who had fronted a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
44% : The Trump Organization -- and Trump as an individual -- reported that they'd paid Michael Cohen a total of $420,000 in 2017.
41% : Trump was not involved with any such conspiracy to influence the 2016 election, Blanche told jurors in great detail on Tuesday, during a three-hour summation.
41% : "President Trump tweeted what happened when it came out," and then signed a government ethics form that also admitted to the reimbursement, Blanche told jurors Tuesday.
38% : How could there be, he asked, when Trump freely admitted to reimbursing Cohen? Blanche then showed the jury three exhibits from the prosecution's own case.
37% : On May 3, 2018, Trump posted a somewhat garbled tweet that concedes the payments he'd made to Cohen throughout 2017 were, in his word, "reimbursement.
31% : "The government has to prove to you that President Trump caused these entries -- even if they were false -- with an intent to defraud," Blanche told jurors.
29% : Here are the three exhibits that Blanche displayed in court for jurors as "proof" that Trump had nothing to hide.
29% : Prosecutors say this is the sum Trump's then CFO, Allen Weisselberg, calculated for what Cohen would be paid as reimbursement for his hush-money outlay, plus taxes and other money Trump owed him.
24% : "Where is the intent to defraud on the part of President Trump?"
14% : Prosecutors must demonstrate Trump had an intent to defraud in order to prove first-degree falsifying business records, the state charge that Trump allegedly violated 34 times throughout 2017, including when he personally signed nine of Cohen's reimbursement checks.

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