Ex-Trump Lawyer Points Out Major Issue With Trial Defense Summary
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Tim Parlatore delivered a damning commentary on the defense's closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush-money trial.
A former lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized the closing arguments made by current Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche in the former president’s hush money trial.
“It went way too long,” Tim Parlatore told CNN’s Jake Tapper of Blanche’s three-hour summation.
“It included way too much extraneous information and as much as he has probably bored the jury to tears,” added Parlatore, who represented the presumptive GOP nominee in his classified documents case but quit last year amid infighting on the team.
Trump is accused of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to porn actor Stormy Daniels during the 2016 election. He allegedly sought to buy Daniels’ silence over an earlier alleged affair. Trump denies the claims.
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