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Trump trial live updates: Jury to re-hear David Pecker testimony on second day of deliberations

  • The jury at the trial of former President Donald Trump will resume deliberations for a second day in a New York courthouse.
  • Jurors asked to re-hear testimony from David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, and from Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen.
  • Cohen's 2016 hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels is at the center of the case against Trump, who is charged with falsifying business records related to reimbursing Cohen.

Editor's note: This is developing news and will be updated throughout the day .

The jury in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump is set to resume its second day of deliberations Thursday with a re-hearing in New York of testimony from David Pecker, the former supermarket tabloid publisher who helped suppress negative stories about the Republican during the 2016 campaign that ended with his election as president.

Jurors also will re-hear testimony by Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, whose $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election is the basis for criminal charges in the trial.

The 12-member jury also has asked to re-hear the instructions on the law it received Wednesday from Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan before they began their first day of deliberations.

Jurors met in secret to discuss a potential verdict for several hours before sending out two separate notes in the afternoon to request the read-backs of portions of Pecker's and Cohen's testimony, as well as Merchan's instructions. The judge sent them home for the day after saying they would hear those requests on Thursday.

Trump is charged in the case with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records detailing his and his company's

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