Jury has asked for headphones, Possibly Sept. 2016 conversation regarding Karen Mcdougle 150,000.00 [View all]
The jury has also requested that they be provided with headphones for the laptop.
In asking for the headphones, the jury likely wants to listen to certain of the recordings, which could include the Sept. 2016 conversation that Steinglass encouraged them to revisit in his closing. He had told them that if they listened to it with the volume up, they would hear a reference to a possible $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal during that conversation.
David had asked me when he should anticipate being paid back the $150,000. He needed … he wanted the $150,000 back because it was too much money for him to hide from the CEO of the parent company,” Cohen said. “And he had also just laid out $30,000 previous. So he was putting pressure on me to speak to Mr. Trump to get the money back,” Cohen told jurors.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/13/trump-hush-money-criminal-trial/repayment-requests-and-a-locked-drawer-00157594
The conversation, which took place on the morning of Sept. 6, 2016, was played Thursday as part of the testimony by expert witness Douglas Daus, who handles the processing of electronic devices for the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Cohen, Trump's former attorney, secretly recorded the conversation, which lasts about two minutes, during which he and Trump seem to discuss making a $150,000 payment to Karen McDougal to keep her quiet about the alleged affair, which Trump has denied ever took place.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/jurors-hear-secret-recording-trump-michael-cohen-allegedly/story?id=109908089
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