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Each day before and after court proceedings, the former president stepped out in front of the cameras and offered his version of the case.
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Jeenah Moon/Pool via Reuters Donald Trump knows how to play to the audience, whether it's the deluded millions of his MAGA base or the jurors in the first criminal trial of a former president.
That was clear on Friday when Trump seized a moment in his criminal trial to seemingly comfort a witness—his still-loyal ex-assistant Rhona Graff.
The jury had just finished listening to supermarket tabloid sleaze David Pecker testify about what prosecutors say was a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election by paying hush money to kill potentially damaging stories about Trump.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Ex-tabloid publisher David Pecker and Donald Trump's former assistant Rhona Graff were among those who testifed Friday in the hush money trial.
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On Friday, ex-National Enquirer publisher David Pecker took the stand again in the former president's trial.
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The Trump trial in New York: Witness David Pecker faces cross-examination
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