Donald Trump’s closing argument is falling apart for him already

| 9:53 am EDT May 28, 2024
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Heading into today, the big question was whether Donald Trump was going to be awake enough to try to influence his defense team’s closing argument, or whether he’d be so zoned out that his attorneys ended up merely guessing what he wanted. It’s still not clear if Trump is mentally present today. But his team’s closing argument is already falling apart.

Given the overwhelming case against him, Trump’s only slim hope during this closing argument would be to try to carve out the tiniest sliver of reasonable doubt: Sure, what you’ve heard is true, but it’s not absolute proof of a crime. Instead Trump’s defense attorney is claiming that the payments were perfectly legitimate, the books were perfectly legitimate, and so on.

This is no doubt the kind of argument that Donald Trump wants to hear. But it’s not an effective one. Trump’s defense team is telling the jury that it needs to ignore all of the evidence and testimony that it’s spent the past month hearing and seeing. That’s not a convincing argument. Not even close.