Donald Trump speaking with reporters outside his civil fraud trial in New York.
Donald Trump speaking with reporters outside his civil fraud trial in New York.
  • A Trump fraud-trial witness's possible perjury should not delay a verdict, NY officials argue.
  • They say it's "hardly surprising" if Trump co-defendant Allen Weisselberg lied on the stand.
  • Weisselberg "lacks credibility" anyway, the officials, from the NY AG's office, wrote Wednesday.

With a potentially corporation-crippling verdict still looming in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial, New York officials are now asking the judge to please not let an inconsequential and "hardly surprising" potential perjury slow things down.