Evidence presented during Trump’s trial on Monday was “close to being smoking guns” against him, according to a legal expert.
Two documents presented at Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Monday were “close to being smoking guns,” demonstrating the former president’s guilt, according to law professor Ryan Goodman, formerly the special counsel to the general counsel of the Department of Defense.
Goodman made the comments during a CNN interview after the court heard testimony from former Trump Organization controller Jeff McConney and accounts payable supervisor Deborah Tarasoff.
Trump is facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in relation to claims he orchestrated the payment of $130,000 in hush money to former adult film actor Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election to cover up an alleged affair. The former president and presumptive 2024 Republican presidential candidate has pleaded not guilty to all charges and denies having an affair with Daniels.
On Monday, prosecutors showed the court two documents: one an internal payment record from Weisselberg, then the Trump Organization’s chief finance officer, concerning a payment to Daniels’s lawyer along with handwritten notes. The second were handwritten notes from McConney, which prosecutors claim demonstrate the money was intended as payment for Daniels.
