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Trump trial live: Judge warns the former president risks jail over gag order violations - BBC News Trump trial live: Judge warns the former president risks jail over gag order violations - BBC News
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Madeline Halpert Kayla Epstein
Reporting from courtReporting from court
Trump attorney Emil Bove is now questioning McConney. As the court breaks for lunch, here is some of what we learned during McConney's cross-examination.
He starts off by trying to distance Trump from the documents that we’ve been seeing this morning. The questioning by Trump's lawyer Emil Bove lasted less than an hour - compared to the prosecution's questions, which ran for more than two.
He asks McConney if Trump ever directly asked him to oversee the reimbursements to Cohen. His primary strategy was to put distance between Trump himself and all the emails, invoices and bank statements the prosecution asked former controller McConney about. He also sought to undermine McConney's testimony.
“No, he did not,” McConney says. It’s important because, to prove the felony, prosecutors must convince the jury that Trump knew about the allegedly falsified records, and falsified them to conceal or commit a second crime.
We heard from McConney earlier that Allen Weisselberg - the former Trump Organization CFO - had given him directions on how to handle the reimbursements, not Trump himself. Some of Bove's points:
Trump never directly asked McConney to oversee reimbursements to Cohen
Cohen sent invoices from a personal letterhead from his own law firm – not as an employee of the Trump Organization
McConney could have known firsthand about Cohen’s arrangement with the company
Trump's businesses and finances created a massive web, with more than 500 different entites such as golf courses and entitties put in trust when he became president. Each entitiy had its own general ledger
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