'Didn't go well': George Conway says Trump's hush money prosecutors flubbed key question
Prosecutors in former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial were stymied Tuesday by a flurry of objections as they tried to wrap the day's proceedings on their own terms, according to legal analyst George Conway.
Manhattan District Attorney's office prosecutors appeared to edge toward asking Keith Davidson, the attorney for Playboy model Karen McDougal who negotiated with the National Enquirer on her behalf, about the assumed source of the payments, Conway reported to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace.
There was just one problem, he said.
"The prosecution got completely bollocksed up with objections," Conway said. "There was a lot of confusion in front of the jury that was unfortunate."
Davidson "didn't quite understand what the prosecutor was driving at," Conway said, positing they'd hoped to find out whether Trump was the assumed source of the money.
Trump has pleaded not guilty to all 34 counts against him.
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Prosecutors then asked Davidson to refresh his memory, Conway said.
"The prosecutor pulls out the grand jury testimony of Davidson and says, 'Why don't you read this to yourself?"' Conway said. "The defense objects, and there's a sidebar."
But prosecutors were "shut down" because, according to Conway, "That testimony can only be refreshed if the witness doesn't recall something they'd previously revealed."
Conway then described a flood of objections as prosecutors attempted to end the day on solid ground.
"In the moments that followed," Conway said, "they desperately tried to figure out a way to get from the witness what they were hoping would close the testimony."
Conway ultimately found it was a failure.
"It didn't go well for the prosecution," he said.
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