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Former President Trump (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) and Michael Cohen (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Having been ordered by the trial judge to provide notice as to their position on an advice of counsel defense ahead of the New York hush-money trial, former President Donald Trump’s attorneys revealed that they are only interested, at this time, in questioning key witnesses to “elicit” facts about his “awareness” that lawyers were involved in the “underlying conduct.”

The brief notice ahead of the scheduled March 25 trial, which the Trump defense recently sought to put on hold, irking Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, stated that they are not now embracing a “formal advice-of-counsel defense.” Rather, the defense is looking to show, through witness testimony they “elicit,” that Trump “lacked the requisite intent to commit the conduct charged in the Indictment because of his awareness that various lawyers were involved in the underlying conduct giving rise to the charges.”

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