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Trump and Todd Blanche, his head attorney, are continuously huddling together to speak at the defence table as they wait for proceedings to get under way. Joshua Steinglass, one of the Manhattan prosecutors in the case, asks to introduce evidence about the Trump 2016 campaign’s co-ordination with the National Enquirer - a tabloid newspaper.
Trump seems to have a view of himself and the rest of the defence table on one of four large TV monitors mounted to the front wall of the courtroom, which is positioned to the left of the bench. He says that the publication had said it would promote positive stories about Trump and negative stories about Trump’s opponents, including Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung can be seen seated in the back of the room. Trump’s attorney Todd Blanche pushes back on the prosecution's effort to introduce evidence from the National Enquirer.
“This evidence would do nothing but confuse the jury about the actual crime charged for several reasons,” Blanche says, describing the evidence as a “side show".
Justice Merchan rules that prosecutors are allowed to introduce them and says he's happy that the defence agrees that the material is not "illegal or improper".
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