CNBC
The evidence in the criminal hush money case against former president Donald Trump is “literally overwhelming,” a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
“Focus on the evidence and the logical inferences that can be drawn from that evidence,” Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Joshua Steinglass said at the end of his closing argument for the trial.
“In the interest of justice, and in the name of the people of the state of New York, I ask you to find the defendant guilty,” Steinglass said. “Thank you.”
Steinglass spent nearly five hours methodically reminding jurors of the testimony they had heard and evidence they had been shown.
All of it, the prosecutor argued, painted a picture of Trump directing and benefiting from a scheme to protect his presidential campaign from negative information about him becoming public during the 2016 election.
“Everything Mr. Trump and his cohorts did in this case was cloaked in lies,” Steinglass said.
“The name of the game was concealment, and all roads lead to the man who benefited the most, Donald Trump.”
Judge Juan Merchan told jurors to return to court at 10 a.m. Wednesday to receive about an hour’s worth of instructions on the law in the case.
