Trump trial live updates: White House executive assistant Madeleine Westerhout to return to the stand in hush money trial

Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to testify himself on Monday, setting up a brilliant showdown in court.

He will likely remain in the stands for several days.

Cohen’s account of events is at the center of the case, which centers on the $130,000 hush-money payment he paid to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s former executive assistant has revealed that Melania Trump was “absolutely the one in charge” in her marriage to Donald Trump.

In dramatic testimony from Trump’s hush money trial, Madeleine Westerhout said the former first couple had a “special relationship” based on “mutual respect.”

When he was president, Trump called his wife from the Oval Office and asked her to look down from a window in the White House residence.

And when he left in a helicopter, he would call her to “check in.”

Judge Juan Merchan brutally stripped Donald Trump’s lawyers in front of the former president as he denied their motion for a mistrial in the hush money case Thursday afternoon.

It was the defense’s second motion for a mistrial this week following scandalous testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

In his call for a mistrial, attorney Todd Blanche called Stormy Daniels’ testimony “extremely prejudicial” and noted that even the judge agreed that some of the testimony was “unnecessary.”

“It’s almost unbelievable that we are here in connection with a dossier case and that the government is asking about an incident that took place in 2006,” Blanche argued, referring to Daniels’ testimony Tuesday about rolling up a magazine and thus beating Trump for almost twenty years. past.