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Jurors were excused for the day without reaching a verdict, after deliberations began in the first criminal trial of an American president. Donald Trump is accused of falsifying business records to hide hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, a former porn star, before the election in 2016. On Tuesday, Todd Blanche, Mr Trump’s lawyer, spent most of a three-hour closing argument trying to discredit Michael Cohen, the prosecution’s star witness. But he also implied that his client could go to prison if convicted. That, prosecutors said after jurors had left the courtroom, was an inappropriate bid to “curry sympathy” for the defendant. The judge agreed, calling the comment “outrageous”. Joshua Steinglass, a prosecutor, opted for a detailed slideshow of the evidence for his closing statement, which lasted nearly five hours.
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