'We will call him President Trump': Defense lawyers vacillate between honorifics
by NBC News
NBC News— Former President Donald Trump has been called a lot of names in the first six days of his New York hush-money trial. "We will call him 'President Trump' out of respect for the office that he held from 2017 to 2021," Trump lawyer Todd Blanche told the jury during his opening statement Monday. "And as everybody knows, it’s the office he’s running for right now. He’s the Republican nominee." Longtime tabloid publisher David Pecker, who testified that he conspired with Trump in 2015 and 2016 to...
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