Donald Trump’s defence rested in the Manhattan “hush money” case on Tuesday without him taking the stand, sending the historic first criminal trial of a former US president into its final stages.
The decision — an apparent climbdown by Trump, who had repeatedly vowed that he would testify to clear his name — came at the end of more than four weeks of evidence from prosecutors, during which they called 20 witnesses including Stormy Daniels, the porn actor allegedly paid off by Trump in exchange for her silence over a claimed sexual encounter.
Former Trump fixer Michael Cohen, who organised and facilitated payments totalling $130,000 to Daniels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, also testified for several days.
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