Key takeaways from day 15 of Trump’s hush money trial

Prosecutors in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial presented a marathon of witnesses and experts to jurors on Friday to corroborate evidence of phone conversations and records in the case ahead of calling their final witnesses, including Mr Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen.

In a relatively quiet day for the hush money trial, jurors heard from a former Trump administration aide and three analysts who introduced phone records, text messages and other evidence that will tee up Cohen’s expected testimony next week.

Cohen, a star witness in the case, played a central role in helping the former president suppress politically damaging stories in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election.

He coordinated with former tabloid publisher David Pecker to catch and kill stories and ultimately paid adult film star Stormy Daniels $130,000 for her silence over a sexual encounter she allegedly had with Mr Trump in 2006. The former president is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records over the $130,000 payment.

Cohen could take the stand to testify as early as Monday with Manhattan prosecutors telling New York Justice Juan Merchan they are on track to rest their case as soon as next Friday.

Here are the key moments from today’s day in court:

Georgia Longstreet, a paralegal for the Manhattan DA’s office, returned to the witness stand to introduce tweets that Mr Trump made about Cohen in 2018.

Ms Longstreet’s job was to “hash” publicly available materials, like tweets, by screenshotting and preserving them.

The tweets revealed how Mr Trump had a sudden change of heart about Cohen – going from gushing about him being “a fine person” to trashing him as a lawyer in the space of just four months.

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