“There is no evidence that President Trump knew anything about this voucher system. There is no evidence. Not a single word,” Trump attorney Todd Blanche tells the jury.
“If the government reads you quotes from a book… you should be suspicious. That's a red flag,” Blanche says.
“If the reason the government is going to ask you to conclude that President Trump knew something about this voucher system is because he wrote something in a book that he was helped by ghostwriters decades before, there is a problem in the evidence.” , keep going. .
“Proof beyond a reasonable doubt does not include a passage from a book from decades earlier, ladies and gentlemen,” Blanche says.
Blanche then focuses on former Trump executive Jeffrey McConney's email to Trump's former accountant Deborah Tarasoff, instructing her to pay out of the trust, account for business expenses, and put down a retainer.
“Each of these phrases should definitely give you a reasonable doubt,” Blanche says.
