Source:MSNBC talking about Defendant Don. 

Source:The New Democrat

“The jury is deliberating in former President Trump’s hush money criminal trial, weighing the evidence and witnesses presented by the prosecution to determine if Donald Trump is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Andrea Mitchell is joined by Vaughn Hillyard, Andrew Weissmann, Jeremy Saland, Barbara McQuade, and former federal Judge John E. Jones to review the closing arguments and discuss what the jury is considering in their deliberations.”

From MSNBC

I’m paraphrasing Barbara McQuade here. But she said the strongest evidence against Donald J. Trump, has to do with the checks for the payoffs to Stephanie Clifford (also known as Stormy Daniels) and Karen McDougal. She was talking about he faces 34 felony counts. But he only has to be convicted of 1 of them to be convicted of a felony.

Former New York City Judge George Grasso was on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 last night and he was basically saying this, as well as the Allen Weisselberg memo, is the “smoking gun” evidence against Donald Trump in this case:

“I think he made a real legal and tactical mistake, by diving into People’s Exhibits 35 and 36, the Weisselberg notes. So, I think they are the smoking-gun evidence. And I think he dove into a minefield without a plan to get — to get through it.

COOPER: Do you think he should not have even brought those up?

GRASSO: If anything, I wouldn’t — he like lead with it.”

From CNN

And apparently the jury is already asking questions like: “Do we have to vote to convict on every count to convict the defendant on any of the counts?” And the answer to that is no, as Judge Juan Merchan has already ruled.

So I think you can see why the legal analysts in this case (who aren’t MAGA lawyers and other partisan Republicans lawyers) believe that there’s a strong chance that Donald J. Trump will be convicted of at least 1 felony in this case. They have 34 counts against him. They only need conviction on one count to make him a convicted felon.