The Latest | Stormy Daniels to return to the stand for more questioning in Trump’s hush money trial
NEW YORK — Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, two days after spending hours recounting in sometimes graphic detail the alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former president that she was ultimately paid to keep quiet about during the 2016 presidential election. .
The former president’s lawyers aggressively tried to poke holes in Daniels’ credibility during cross-examination, accusing the porn actor of trying to extort Trump and rehearsing her testimony — two claims she strongly denied. The defense also made an unsuccessful attempt to have a mistrial declared, arguing that Daniels’ morning testimony “had nothing to do with this case and was extremely prejudicial.”
Trump denies that the two ever had sex.
Prosecutors say Trump and two of his associates orchestrated a scheme to influence the 2016 election by buying and then burying stories that could harm his campaign.
Daniels’ testimony is a lead-in to the prosecution’s star witness, Michael Cohen, who arranged the $130,000 payment to Daniels and later went to prison on orchestrating the payments and other charges.
Trump is accused of falsifying internal company records to cover up the hush money payments and instead recording them as legal fees. He has pleaded not guilty.
The case is the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president and the first of four prosecutions against Trump to reach a jury.
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Keeping money, catching and killing and more: Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York is full of terms you don’t normally hear in a courtroom.
Centered on allegations that Trump falsified his company’s records to conceal the nature of the hush money refunds, this is the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president and the first of Trump’s four charges to go to trial. It also has some unique terminology.
The Associated Press defines these terms and more here.
Porn actor Stormy Daniels returns to the witness stand Thursday morning in Donald Trump’s hush money trial.
Although she is the latest high-profile name to be called in for questioning, Daniels plays a key role in the events and charges at the center of the criminal case against the former president.
Daniels has said that she and Trump had sex in his hotel suite in 2006 during a celebrity golf outing in Lake Tahoe, during which her studio was a sponsor. She testified Tuesday that the encounter was “brief” but left her “shaking.”
“I just wanted to get away,” she testified.
Ten years later, she was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about the encounter in the final weeks of the 2016 presidential race. Trump denies having sex with Daniels.
Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer at the time, paid Daniels through a shell company he created and the deal was completed on November 1, 2016, just a week before Election Day.
Prosecutors have said that payments from Trump to reimburse Cohen were improperly — and illegally — recorded as legal fees to obscure their true purpose. Trump’s lawyers argue that the payments were legitimate legal fees.
Donald Trump is expected in court in Manhattan on Thursday morning as testimony in his criminal trial resumes.
Porn actor Stormy Daniels will return to the stand for a referral by prosecutors after attorneys questioned her during cross-examination Tuesday afternoon.
The former president spent most of Tuesday listening to Daniels tell jurors about her background and upbringing, her career in the adult entertainment industry and how it led to meeting Trump, and — ultimately — the alleged 2006 sexual encounter that resulted in a six-figure payout. in exchange for her silence a decade later during the 2016 presidential election.
It remains to be seen who will take the stand after Daniels completes her testimony.