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 Doug Mills/ReutersThe B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on Thursday, as Donald Trump's team worked hard to show that the prosecution's witness was actually engaged in a scheme to extort the politician in the weeks before the 2016 election.
The third week of the former president's criminal trial in New York has focused mostly on the dirty world of scandal coverups, with a Beverly Hills lawyer describing how worried stars, conniving publicists, and unscrupulous entertainment "journalists" manage the underground market for embarrassing information.
But while the trial on Tuesday served as a primer, Thursday showed how even now—nearly eight years after these Trump deals were put into place—a key player still couldn't come to grips with reality over exactly what he did.
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