New York | Donald Trump engaged in a conspiracy “to hoodwink voters” in 2016, a prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) during closing arguments in the former president’s hush money trial, while a defence lawyer branded the star witness as the “greatest liar of all time” and pressed the panel for an across-the-board acquittal.

The lawyers’ duelling accounts – wildly divergent in their assessments of witness credibility, Mr Trump’s culpability and the strength of evidence – offered both sides one final chance to score points with the jury before it starts deliberating the first felony case against a former American president.

AP