Trump's N.Y. criminal trial: Where it stands

• The presumptive Republican presidential nominee denied wrongdoing in the case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

State of play: Star witness Cohen, Trump's onetime fixer, testified that he organized and personally paid the $130,000 in hush money to Daniels. Prosecutors alleged that Trump falsified reimbursement payments to Cohen as "legal expenses."

• The jury also heard from Daniels, who detailed her alleged sexual affair with Trump in 2006. That encounter lay at the heart of the prosecution case.
• Prosecutors argued during opening statements in late April that the alleged falsified business records and other actions amounted to Trump interfering with the 2016 presidential election.

Who testified:

Michael Cohen: Cohen testified that Trump had approved the hush money scheme and was aware that the reimbursement payments would be marked as legal costs.

• He said the scheme stemmed from Trump's worry that Daniels' story could damage his 2016 presidential campaign after the release of the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape.
• During cross-examination, Trump's legal team attempted to discredit Cohen by presenting him as deceitful and seeking revenge on his former boss.

Hope Hicks: The former top Trump White House aide testified how the "Access Hollywood" triggered panic in Trump's campaign.

• She said Trump told her to deny Daniels' allegations and claimed that Cohen paid Daniels "out of the goodness of his heart," which she said did not correspond with her understanding of Cohen's character.

David Pecker: The former National Enquirer publisher and a longtime friend of Trump was the trial's first witness and testified for days.

• He detailed how he suppressed stories critical of Trump, including another alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal whom, prosecutors alleged, received a second hush money deal.
• Pecker said he would conduct these "catch and kill" schemes in coordination with Trump by buying exclusive life story rights from people and then burying their stories.
• Pecker said he knew the $150,000 payment to McDougal to buy her life story rights and essentially silence her likely went against campaign finance laws because it was coordinated with Trump's political campaign.

Rhona Graff: Trump's former assistant, who maintained the former president's contact list, testified that he had contact information for McDougal and Daniels.

• Prosecutors used Graff's testimony to authenticate Trump's contact list and entries for Daniels and McDougal in the Trump Organization's mail and calendar software.

Gary Farro: Farro, a former senior managing director at First Republic Bank, was a key document witness. He saw the opening of Essential Consultants, an LLC allegedly used by Cohen to distribute payments in an alleged hush-money scheme in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

• Farro testified that Cohen, who received a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to federal crimes including campaign finance violations, claimed the LLC was for real estate consulting and marked on an application that it would not be associated with political fundraising or a political action committee.

Robert Browning: The executive director of C-SPAN archives was called primarily to verify the truth of records presented in the case, namely 2016 campaign event footage and a 2017 news conference when Trump was president-elect.

• In clips played to the jury, Trump attacked women who had accused him of sexual misconduct. In one instance, he said they only made the accusations against him to hurt his campaign.

Phillip Thompson: Thompson works for a court reporting company that recorded and transcribed Trump's October 2022 deposition in one of E. Jean Carroll's defamation cases against him.

• Parts of the deposition were shown in the trial, including one clip of Trump verifying that it was him speaking on the "Access Hollywood" tape.

Keith Davidson: The Beverly Hills lawyer had negotiated Daniels' hush money agreement central to the case as well as McDougal's contract with the National Enquirer's parent company.

• Davidson testified that he knew McDougal's deal would help Trump's candidacy and it was his understanding that the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape was the driving force behind the deal to bury Daniels' story.

Jeffrey McConney: In his testimony, the former Trump Organization corporate controller testified that reimbursement payments to Cohen for Daniels' hush money began in 2017 after Trump was sworn into office and were not reviewed by the company's legal department.

• He said at least 11 of the payments came directly from Trump's personal bank account and these checks were sent directly to the White House for Trump's signature.

Stormy Daniels: In addition to detailing the alleged affair, Daniels recounted being physically threatened in 2011 in a parking lot after she granted a tell-all interview with a magazine.

• Daniels renounced a 2018 statement in which she denied the alleged affair. She said on the witness stand that she did not want to sign the statement because it wasn't true.

Robert Costello: The testimony of the defense's first witness, Costello, a lawyer who once advised Cohen, quickly went off the rails.

• The judge admonished Costello for his reactions to rulings while on the stand and briefly cleared the courtroom during his testimony.

Trump did not testify

• Trump had claimed he would testify in the criminal trials against him, but he did not take the stand.
• He did not follow through with similar claims in 2018 in regards to Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
• Trump testified once during his New York civil fraud lawsuit, but his lawyers dissuaded further testimony over fears that it could hurt the case, per the New York Times.

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Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional testimony, to reflect that the jury's verdict, and with further context.