Concluding remarks:

"If the defense's theme was that Cohen lied, the prosecution's was corroboration of Cohen " and they hammered it home discussing the unlawful means by which they allege the conspiracy proceeded, going through extensive testimony of other witnesses and what felt like the majority of their hundreds of exhibits.

The prosecution had the better of the argument here as well, helped by the applicable law. Even if Trump paid hush money to Daniels to protect his family, for example, the law still allows conviction if the intent of the conspiracy was to help the campaign as well.

The prosecution was ahead on points going into the closing arguments and Tuesday did not change that calculus. Yes, the closing left off-ramps such as the question of intent if a juror wants to hang the case " but a hung jury is unlikely."

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To me, the bottom line is that the Jury now knows some things for certain; Donald Trump is lying when he says there was no affair, that he didn't know about any hush money, and that it wasn't about protecting the Campaign... which was why ------ said he was quashing the stories.

Which is enough for the Jury to convict Trump of most if not all of the counts.

"Alvin Bragg's Team Points To 'Smoking Gun' in Trump Case

Prosecutors from the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg have argued that "smoking gun" documents were presented in the New York City criminal trial of former President Donald Trump.

Joshua Steinglass called notes from former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg and former controller Jeff McConney "the smoking guns" while delivering the prosecution's closing arguments in the Trump trial on Tuesday, according to Newsweek reporter Katherine Fung, who was present in the courtroom.

The notes purportedly instructed Trump to illegally falsify business records to cover up "hush money" payments that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016.

Steinglass said during his closing statement that he was "speechless" Trump's defense team was still claiming that the payments were "legal fees," calling the documents presented during trial "so damning you almost have to laugh."

If he hadn't been so worried about his past being exposed before the election that he had a newspaper owner squashing and paying off multiple scandals, and a lawyer paying off his adulterous affairs then hiding the payments as business expenses... which he then wrote off his taxes!... we might never have heard about them.

As Ann Coulter said, he's a stupid man.

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Perhaps that's why the article author said a hung jury is unlikely.

While you wait.... a little dance music ( Lee's Eyes Only! )

So... it turns out that Diaper Don went to sleep again; he just shut down completely in front of the Jury during Jury Instructions: