Defence lawyer Susan Necheles said Bender, a partner at Mazars USA LLP who spent years overseeing tax returns for Trump's hundreds of entities, "surprised" her when he testified that he didn't actually do much work on the company's tax returns."That answer surprised me because it's just not true," Necheles said during a court conference held after Bender and the jury left the courtroom for a lunch break.
"I don't want to impeach the witness. I don't want to call him a liar," Necheles said. "That's impeaching the witness." "I believe I've bent over backward to allow both defendants to prepare a defense," Merchan said, referring to the Trump Corporation and the other charged subsidiary, Trump Corp. and Trump Payroll Corp. As a gatekeeper, Merchan said, "I don't believe that means I have to let you to throw everything at the jury and see what sticks."
Trump has blamed Bender for not catching the scheme, writing on his Truth Social platform: "The highly paid accounting firm should have routinely picked these things up -- we relied on them. VERY UNFAIR!"
🤔How does one impeach an ex-president? We are also coming up on three years' worth of trials looking for that one little piece of 'Gotcha' evidence. So, who is paying for the courts and lawyers' fees? Any Canadians with orange syndrome offering to help with the fees?
No they lied