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2 verified reports published on May 21, 2024.
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This wasn’t the day the wheels came off. It was the day the spokes got another hard look. For Trump, that is often how the serious trouble starts: not with a theatrical collapse, but with a courtroom narrowing the exits while his team insists the parade is still moving.
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Trump’s defense rested on May 21, 2024 without calling him to the stand, and the New York hush-money trial moved into jury-instruction talks ahead of closing arguments scheduled for the following week.
On May 21, 2024, after the defense rested, Judge Juan Merchan held a charging conference on jury instructions in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Closing arguments were set for the following week, and deliberations were still days away.