In March, defense lawyers sought to exclude a government ethics form that disclosed Trump's reimbursement to Cohen, as well as a series of tweets from 2018 that prosecutors alleged were part of a "pressure campaign" against Cohen.
"Under these appropriate standards, President Trump's social media posts and public statements -- while acting as President and viewed in context -- fell within the outer perimeter of his Presidential duty, to which communicating with the public on matters of public concern was central," Trump's lawyers wrote in the March motion that the judge rejected ahead of the trial.