{"id":105724,"date":"2024-05-28T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-to-hear-closing-arguments\/"},"modified":"2024-05-28T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:03:55","slug":"trump-trial-live-updates-jury-to-hear-closing-arguments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-to-hear-closing-arguments\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump trial live updates: Jury to hear closing arguments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-28\/GettyRF_101623_USFlagJustice.jpeg\" alt><figcaption>SimpleImages\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried on criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Trump last April pleaded not guilty to a 34-count indictment charging him with falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment his then-attorney Michael Cohen made to Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s how the news is developing:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 28, 6:56 AM<\/strong><br \/><strong>Jury to hear closing arguments<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After five weeks of testimony, jurors in former President Trump&#8217;s hush money case are scheduled to hear closing arguments today.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office and attorneys for Trump are both set to deliver closing statements.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Juan Merchan is then expected to delivery jury instructions on Wednesday, after which jurors will begin deliberations.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SimpleImages\/Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York City, where he is facing felony charges related to a 2016 hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. It marks the first time in history that a former U.S. president has been tried<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/trump-trial-live-updates-jury-to-hear-closing-arguments\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}