Norm Eisen on Hush Money Trial Prosecution: ‘It’s Theirs to Lose’

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EISEN: “I think it bespeaks some of the thinness of what the defense has to work with that they’re dragging in these absent witnesses. I mean, imagine the jury reaction. We’ve been here for 20 trial days and these people are saying we should have stayed for longer. We heard from Allen Weisselberg in the form of others testifying about him and his notes, the probably the smoking gun of smoking guns in this case, laying out the so-called grossed up scheme. So the problem for the defense is, they have not really put forward an alternative theory. Their one witness, Robert Costello, on the defense case was a disaster. There’s nobody in that courtroom who thinks that this payment was made and then doubled to $130,000, doubled or that this false alleged paper trail was created without Donald Trump’s permission. Now, there may be one or two jurors, again, it speaks to toughness of the defense’s job. They’re not really trying for an acquittal. Nobody is saying, oh, Donald Trump’s got a great shot at an acquittal here. What they’re trying for is a hung jury and a mistrial, one or two jurors. So pointing to Weisselberg and the other missing witnesses speaks to the toughness of the defense lay down. I’d rather be the prosecution. It’s theirs to lose.”