In closing arguments, Trump Organization lawyers blame former CFO Allen Weisselberg
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Defense attorneys for the Trump Organization sought Thursday to ensure jurors in the company's fraud and tax evasion trial walk away with one line in their heads, a sort of mantra they repeated over and over in closing arguments:  "Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg," the defense lawyers said, referring to the Trump Organization's former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who in August entered a guilty plea in the case. Weisselberg and two Trump Organization entities, called the Trump Corporation and Trump Payroll Corporation, were indicted in July 2021. The line, which was first used during opening statements in October, was said so frequently Thursday that when jurors returned from lunch, defense attorney Michael van der Veen began by saying, "Where was I? Oh yeah, Weisselberg did it for Weisselberg!"  He paused before finishing the sentence and pointed at the jurors, as if they might join in his chant. A few appeared to laugh. Weisselberg testified about his tax scheme duri
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