Defense lawyers are deploying an interesting strategy to win over jurors in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial. They’re humanizing the bombastic former president as a concerned family man and boss who, like anyone, just wanted to ward off bad press to protect his reputation and brand. The idea is to undercut New York prosecutors who must tie a hush-money scheme and alleged coverup directly to the 2016 presidential election. “At that time, there were all kinds of salacious