Trump ‘considering role for Elon Musk in his administration’
- by The Daily Telegraph
- May 29, 2024
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News of the potential appointment comes as Mr Trump compared himself to Mother Teresa as the jury began deliberations in his historic hush money trial.
The jury of seven men and five women began weighing the verdict in the first criminal trial of a former US president just before 11:30am on Wednesday.
“Mother Teresa could not beat these charges. These charges are rigged”, Mr Trump told reporters shortly after the jurors retired.
The former president, 77, must remain at Manhattan Criminal Court throughout the deliberations.
Earlier in the day, Mr Trump leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes as Judge Juan Merchan read jurors their instructions.
Mr Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business documents to conceal a $130,000 payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels in the days before the 2016 election.
To convict Mr Trump, the jury will have to find unanimously that he created a fraudulent entry in his company’s records, or caused someone else to do so, and that he did so with the intent of committing or concealing another crime.
The crime prosecutors say Mr Trump committed or hid is a violation of a New York election law which makes it illegal for two or more conspirators “to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.”
While the jury must unanimously agree that something unlawful was done to promote Mr Trump’s election campaign, they do not have to agree on what that unlawful thing was.
“It is not my responsibility to judge the evidence here. It is yours,” Mr Merchan told jurors as he handed them the case.
“You are the judges of the facts and you are responsible for deciding whether the defendant is guilty or not guilty.”
Mr Trump has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
On Musk, Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, told the Wall Street Journal: “President Trump will be the only voice of what role an individual plays in his presidency.”
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