McConney is proving to be an important witness for the prosecution, as he can testify to the reimbursements at the centre of prosecutors’ case.
Taking the stand today, he stayed calm as he answered hours of questions from prosecutors about details behind the payments.
During his testimony, McConney provided “an understanding of how attentive Trump was when it came to his finances, meaning nothing happened without his knowledge”, former Brooklyn prosecutor Julie Rendelman tells me.
But to secure a conviction, she says, prosecutors will need to go one step further.
“The hush-money payments, in and of themselves, are not enough to prove the crime,” she says. “The prosecution still must establish the deliberate falsification of the business records and that it was done in furtherance of impacting the election.”
