Rep. Byron Donalds speaks during press conference outside NY v. Trump trial (Fox News)
"There's nothing that has been wrong here. Nothing that has been done poorly by President Trump. The only thing that's being done wrong is by this judge. His daughter is making money, raising money for Democrats, and all of the fundraising emails, and all the fundraising things are about this trial that his daughter is using. He won't recuse himself. This is a travesty of justice. This is a misuse of the justice system," Donalds said during the press conference.
Senator JD Vance, a Republican from Ohio, second left, Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama, left, and Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican from New York, second right, speak to members of the media outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse in New York, US, on Monday, (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Trump is in court for his 17th day of the trial on Tuesday. The case focuses on Cohen paying former pornographic performer Stormy Daniels $130,000 to allegedly quiet her claims of an alleged 2006 extramarital affair with the then-real estate tycoon. Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.
Prosecutors allege that the Trump Organization reimbursed Cohen and fraudulently logged the payments as legal expenses. Prosecutors are working to prove that Trump falsified records with the intent to commit or conceal a second crime.
Trump has pleaded not guilty in the case and has maintained his innocence.
This week began with testimony from Cohen, who is considered the prosecution's star witness in the case. The former Trump attorney detailed to the court that he spent his own funds to pay Daniels $130,000 in order to execute a non-disclosure agreement and obtain rights to her claims of an affair. In October 2016, according to Cohen's testimony, he told Trump that Daniels must be paid in order to quiet her claims ahead of Election Day the following month.
Michael Cohen, ex-lawyer for former President Donald Trump, is expected to testify on Monday. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Legal experts subsequently sounded off that Daniels’ testimony was irrelevant to the case and that it should not have been admitted into the record. Trump's legal team twice moved for a mistrial, but was denied.
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Piers Morgan’s planned interview with Stormy Daniels is back on after the adult film star postponed it last week due to some security issues. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images)
Burgum added during the Tuesday press conference that while the trial continues, allies of Trump's will continue campaigning for the 45th president as Americans deal with spiraling inflation under the Biden administration.
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"We're all here today because of the circus of this trial. But I want to say a word to those Americans out there that are dealing with Biden's inflation. And when their paychecks aren't helping them get through the end of the month because they're paying more for their gas and their food. They're paying more for their electricity. I want them to know that while this trial is going on, there's many of us around the country that are out helping campaign for President Trump to make sure that the message gets through," Burgum said in closing remarks.
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