Defense urges jurors to focus on paperwork as Trump hush money trial nears end

Donald Trump’s lawyer urged jurors on Tuesday to look past the salacious details in his criminal hush money trial and focus on the paperwork at the heart of the case as he urged them to find the former president not guilty of criminal behavior.
“This case is about documents. It’s a paper case,” Trump lawyer Todd Blanche said as he began his closing argument after six weeks of trial.
Blanche said prosecutors had failed to prove that Trump, the 2024 Republican candidate for president, illegally falsified documents to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to advance his 2016 presidential campaign.