Jonah Bromwich
May 30, 2024, 10:27 a.m. ET

Jonah BromwichReporting from inside the courthouse

The jury now hears the complex charges: Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal a second crime, a conspiracy to aid an election by unlawful means. The options for those unlawful means include several other crimes.

So, again, each individual criminal charge here contains within it several other crimes. No wonder the jurors asked to hear this again.

What a former prosecutor who had worked for 40 years in the Manhattan D.A.'s office described as the unusual, complex "layering" of crimes in the indictment. It confused the heck out of me.