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Speaking to reporters in the courthouse hallway on Friday, Donald Trump addressed the allegation at the heart of the case: that he falsified his company’s records to conceal the nature of hush money reimbursements to Michael Cohen.
“A very good bookkeeper marked a legal expense as a legal expense,” he said. “He was a lawyer, not a fixer, he was a lawyer,” he added, referring to Cohen.
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Prosecutors in Donald Trump's hush money case say they expect to call just two more witnesses, laying the ground to possibly rest their case next week.
The announcement came after witness testimony concluded for the day, capping a feverish week in court. Madeleine Westerhout, a former Trump White House aide, was among witnesses who took the stand on Friday.
Prosecutors say Trump and others schemed to influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and burying negative stories that might hurt his campaign.
He is accused of falsifying internal business records to cover up hush money payments by logging them as legal expenses. He has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts.