Day 8 of Trump New York hush money trial

Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial will see “quite a few somewhat dull witnesses,” said former federal prosecutor Ankush Khardori.

The case is less about the salacious details of Trump's alleged affair with Stormy Daniels — that he denies — and more about the allegations that he covered it up to influence the 2016 presidential election, he points.

Meanwhile, prosecution and defense also have to be mindful of the approaching weekend.

As a prosecutor, “you like the idea of leaving [the jurors] with something solid, unchallenged, good at the end of the week,” said Trump’s former attorney Jim Trusty.

“They’re basically introducing some paperwork for the jury to look at at 4:30 before they go home, and go, oh there were checks, or there were meetings, or there were contacts.”

It’s also smart for the defense “to keep it dull, to basically not spend any time cross-examining people where you have no real reason to gain anything because they’re not establishing criminality or they’re not establishing controversial points,” he added.

After exiting the courtroom Friday, former President Donald Trump once again said he would debate President Joe Biden.

Earlier Friday, Biden said in an interview with radio host Howard Stern that he'd be happy to debate Trump.

Mangold says she's at a natural stopping point and Judge Merchan says, we will "call it a week."

He is now giving the jury instructions.

Trump hit his attorney Todd Blanche on the arm and leaned over to tell him something.

Merchan reminds jurors court is dark on Monday and we are back 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday.

Farro says the bank "did all of our work to establish" Cohen's original account, but it was never funded.

"A deposit was never made in the account, so the account never went live," Farro says.

Thirteen days later, on October 26, 2016, Farro received another email from his assistant to return Michael Cohen's call, according to the court exhibit.

"He stated he was changing course and no longer wanted to open Resolution Consultants, and wanted to open a new account," Farro says.

The new LLC was Essential Consultants LLC, Farro says.

This is the LLC that Cohen used to pay Stormy Daniels the $130,000 payment.

On the form the bank prepared for Cohen to open the account, it stated under "business narrative" that Cohen was opening the account for a real estate consulting company to collect fees for consulting work on real estate deals.

Cohen again checked "No" on a form that asked if the entity is "associated with political fundraising/Political Action Committee (PAC)."

Cohen checked "No" on a form that asked if the entity, Resolution Consultants LLC, which was created by him as a Delaware entity, is "associated with political fundraising/Political Action Committee (PAC)."

Farro testified several times that his understanding was that Cohen was opening the account for "real estate."

Per the paperwork, Cohen described the entity's function to be "management consulting (including HR & marketing)."

Cohen was the only authorized signatory for the account.

Farro says that the bank "did all of our work to establish" Cohen's account, but it was never funded.

"A deposit was never made in the account so the account never went live," Farro says, confirming the account was not opened.

Farro and the attorneys are getting into the finer details of his bank's arrangement with Cohen, testifying that Trump's former personal attorney was the only authorized signatory on the account and repeating the account was meant for real estate purposes.

The testimony of Gary Farro, Michael Cohen's former banker, wasn't expected or anticipated, but it gets to what the trial is about, CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins says.

The first document is being shown to the jury is an email from Farro's assistant informing him that Michael Cohen called on October 11, 2016.

Farro received another email two days later.

The banker called Cohen who told him he wanted to open a new LLC account. Cohen said the account was for "capital real estate," Farro says.

"Need an account opened for Mike Cohen immediately. He wants no address on the checks. Calling you now to discuss," an October 13, 2016, email Farro wrote says.

Then banker says that it wasn't that unusual for an LLC not to have addresses on the checks.

Cohen called to set up an account for Resolution Consultants LLC.

The jury is now seeing pages of documents that show Resolution Consultants LLC was created by Michael Cohen as a Delaware entity.

For background: This was the LLC Cohen created for the Karen McDougal payment that never happened.

Farro is being asked about email servers at First Republic and what information they recorded.

The emails include bank transactions and client communications, Farro testifies.

Now the first document from several binders full of them is being shown to the jury.