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Judge denies motion to modify gag order

Judge Juan Merchan denies the defense’s request to modify a court-imposed gag order to allow Donald Trump to respond to testimony by Stormy Daniels.

Merchan says:

My concern is not just with protecting Ms Daniels or a witness who has already testified. My concern is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole.

Merchan continues:

Other people will see you doing it … Other witnesses, including not only Michael Cohen, other witnesses will see your client doing whatever it is he intends to do.

The reason why the gag order is in place to begin with “is precisely because of the nature of these attacks”, the judge says.

The nature, the vitriol … your client’s track record speaks for itself here. I can’t take your word for it that he says I’m just going to speak the facts.

The court has now adjourned for the day, and is scheduled to resume at 9.30am ET tomorrow. Here’s a recap of the day’s events:

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Donald Trump arrived in court on Thursday morning with the Florida senator Rick Scott among his entourage, part of a parade of supporters who have come to court to back the former president.

Stormy Daniels testified for a second day as the former president’s lawyers sought to undermine her in an attempt to persuade jurors that the case’s key prosecution witness cannot be believed.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles pressed on Daniels’ motivations for agreeing to a hush-money payment, asking her why she didn’t just go public with her story in the waning days of the 2016 campaign and instead sought to get paid for her story.

Necheles seemed to be trying to seed the idea that Daniels was more interested in getting a payout than telling the truth. “You wanted money, right?” Necheles said. Daniels said: “I wanted the truth to come out.”

Necheles tried to poke holes in Daniels’ story about her encounter with Trump, highlighting instances in which she said Daniels’ recollection had changed over the years. Daniels refused to concede any inconsistencies: “You’re trying to make it say that it changed but it hasn’t changed.”

Necheles also suggested that Daniels could make up a good story about having sex with Trump because of her experience in the adult entertainment industry. “If that story was untrue I would have written it to be a lot better,” Daniels fired back.

During redirect examination, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked Daniels bluntly if she was telling the truth or lies about Trump. “The truth,” Daniels said. Hoffinger also asked Daniels whether the whole episode had been a net positive or net negative on her life. “Negative,” Daniels said.

Trump Organization bookkeeper Rebecca Manochio testified about sending unsigned checks for Trump to sign at the White House for his personal expenses. She told the jury that Trump and then Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg would speak at least once a day before Trump embarked on his run for president.

Donald Trump’s former personal assistant Madeleine Westerhoutwas also called as a witness. Westerhout, who was Trump’s personal secretary to Trump from 2017 to 2019 and the former director of Oval Office operations for the Trump White House from February to August 2019, is expected to return to the stand on Friday.

Westerhout worked for the Republican National Committee before going to the White House. She testified that the RNC was rattled by the Access Hollywood tape release and that there were “conversations” about replacing Trump as a presidential candidate.

The jury was shown a list of key contacts that Trump’s assistant at his company, Rhona Graff, put together for Westerhout, containing names including Michael Cohen, Allen Weisselberg, David Pecker, members of the Trump family, Fox News hosts and football legends.

Westerhout broke into tears as she described being fired from the White House after she spoke at an off-the-record dinner with journalists.

Judge Juan Merchan denied the defense’s request to modify the gag order so that Trump be allowed to respond publicly to Daniels’ testimony. Merchan, in denying the request, said his concern “is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole”.

Merchan also denied the defense’s renewed mistrial motion. Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that one of Daniels’ answers on the stand was “a dog whistle for rape”. Merchan said Trump’s lawyers had ample opportunities to object to questions that elicited what they say were damaging details about the alleged sexual encounter.

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Judge Juan Merchan says he can’t figure out “for the life of me” why Trump attorney Susan Necheles didn’t object to the prosecution’s question about whether Donald Trump used a condom – something Trump’s lawyers are now saying was prejudicial so there should have been a mistrial.

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The judge denies the defense’s motion for a mistrial.

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Trump attorney Todd Blanche concludes his request for a mistrial, saying that Stormy Daniels’ testimony was a “dog whistle for rape”.

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Trump attorney Todd Blanche is arguing for a mistrial. The defense requested a mistrial earlier this week that was denied by Judge Juan Merchan.

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Blanche is arguing that the prosecution led Stormy Daniels to disclose lurid and irrelevant details about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. It wasn’t that she was “out of control”.

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Blanche is discussing details prosecutors sought about what Daniels says she saw in the bathroom in Trump’s suite and how she reacted when she allegedly saw Trump on the bed.

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Judge Juan Merchan denies the defense’s request to modify a court-imposed gag order to allow Donald Trump to respond to testimony by Stormy Daniels.

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Merchan says:

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n

My concern is not just with protecting Ms Daniels or a witness who has already testified. My concern is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole.

n

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Merchan continues:

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n

Other people will see you doing it … Other witnesses, including not only Michael Cohen, other witnesses will see your client doing whatever it is he intends to do.

n

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The reason why the gag order is in place to begin with “is precisely because of the nature of these attacks”, the judge says.

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n

The nature, the vitriol … your client’s track record speaks for itself here. I can’t take your word for it that he says I’m just going to speak the facts.

n

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Trump attorney Todd Blanche says Donald Trump will be “asked repeatedly over the next week or two about these new accusations of consent and of what happened that night”.

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He says:

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n

There’s voters out there and there’s questioners who will ask him questions about it and he can’t say anything.

n

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Speaking for the prosecution, Chris Conroy says, “It seems as though the other side almost lives in an alternate reality.”

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Conroy says:

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n

This is where facts are brought out. If somebody wants to respond to something that’s said in this room, it can happen in this room.

n

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Trump is passing notes to Todd Blanche as Conroy argues against lifting of gag order.

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Conroy continues to argue that “the fact that witnesses are brave enough to come here under subpoena, tell the truth under oath, shouldn’t expose them” to Trump’s barrage of attacks.

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Trump attorney Todd Blanche says the prosecution has informed him that they no longer intend to call Karen McDougal as a witness.

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Blanche asks the judge that Donald Trump be allowed to respond to Stormy Daniels’ testimony earlier today and on Tuesday.

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Blanche says:

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n

We ask that President Trump be allowed to respond publicly to what happened in court the last day and a half. The press reporting over the last 24 hours about the current version of the story that we believe is completely false … is completely different in kind than the denials and stories that have come forth since as far back as 2011 and 2014.

n

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Blanche adds:

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n

As we’ve said repeatedly, he needs an opportunity to respond to the American people. The reasons for the gag order as they relate to Ms Daniels are over. She’s no longer a witness.

n

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Madeleine Westerhout just broke down in tears when she described being fired from the White House.

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She was fired after she spoke at an off the record dinner with journalists.

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She says she has learned a lot since then and looks at Donald Trump who is looking back at her.

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Prosecutors are asking Madeleine Westerhout to describe a long list of Donald Trump’s habits, from the grammar he liked to use in his tweets to his preferred pen.

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They are establishing how intimately familiar she was with how Trump worked and his processes.

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Westerhout is asked if Trump typically reads things before signing them. Westerhout replies: “Yes”.

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She says it is her understanding that Trump liked to see the tweets that went out.

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On Trump’s grammar, she says:

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n

It’s my understanding that he liked to use the Oxford comma.

n

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Madeleine Westerhout worked at the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2016 when the Access Hollywood tape came out.

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She says she recalls discussions about how to potentially replace Donald Trump as the GOP nominee.

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It’s my recollection that there were conversations about how it would be possible to replace him to the candidate if it came to that.

n

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She also paused when asked what the Access Hollywood tape was and then said:

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It was a tape of Mr Trump and I believe it was Billy Bush having a conversation.

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The prosecution is calling Madeleine Westerhout, Donald Trump’s former personal assistant.

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Westerhout was executive assistant and director of Oval Office operations in the White House and is testifying pursuant to a subpoena.

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The next witness is called: Tracy Menzies, who works for HarperCollins.

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Court is now breaking for lunch and the jury has left the room.

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Judge Juan Merchan says he has been told by the attorneys that the trial is on schedule, perhaps even a little bit ahead of schedule.

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Trump attorney Todd Blanche says the defense will ask for another mistrial based on Stormy Daniels’ testimony. He also says they are going to ask to preclude testimony from Karen McDougal and ask for a gag order. They will take this up at 4pm ET today.

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The prosecution calls its next witness: Rebecca Manochio.

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Manochio is a junior bookkeeper at the Trump Organization. She has been compelled to testify by a subpoena and being represented by counsel.

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She’s worked there since 2013 and started as an administrative assistant. She worked for Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer in the Trump Organization, and the organization’s longtime controller, Jeff McConney.

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Manochio worked as an assistant to Weisselberg for about eight years. She sat outside Weisselberg’s office, and says Weisselberg and Donald Trump would interact every day when they were both in the office.

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Stormy Daniels is excused.

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Daniels walked quickly out of the courtroom, her lips pursed, and did not make eye contact with Donald Trump.

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Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asks:

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Have you been telling lies about Mr Trump or the truth about Mr Trump?

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Stormy Daniels responds:

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The truth.

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Hoffinger asks:

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On balance has it been net positive or net negative?

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Daniels replies:

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Negative.

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles asks Stormy Daniels to confirm that she never spoke to Donald Trump about the $130,000 payment to not speak about her alleged affair. Necheles says:

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n

You have no personal knowledge about his involvement in that transaction or what he did or didn’t do, do you?

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Daniels replies:

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n

Not directly, no.

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The defense team’s cross-examination is over.

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Trump lawyer Susan Necheles is attempting to question Stormy Daniels’ credibility of her account with Donald Trump, asking:

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n

Your story has completely changed, hasn’t it?

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Daniels replies:

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n

No, not at all. You’re trying to make it say that it changed but it hasn’t changed.

n

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles is suggesting that it isn’t believable that Stormy Daniels was caught off guard when she came out of the bathroom and saw Trump in a T-shirt and boxer shorts.

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Daniels has had acted in more than 150 porn movies, Necheles noted, and was used to men making a pass at her.

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Daniels says it was jarring to see an older man in T-shirt and boxers when she wasn’t expecting it.

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On Tuesday, Daniels testified that she went to use the bathroom during her meeting with Trump in his Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2006. When she left the bathroom, there Trump was – on the bed, clad in boxer shorts and a T-shirt, she said.

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“At first I was just startled, like a jump scare,” Daniels told jurors earlier this week.

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n

I just thought: oh, my God, what did I misread to get here? The intention is pretty clear if someone’s stripped down to their underwear and on the bed.

n

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles is now walking through Stormy Daniels’ history in pornography. Necheles says:

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n

You have a lot of experience in making phoney stories about sex appear to be real.

n

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Daniels replies:

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n

The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room.

n

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Daniels, addressing the suggestion she made up the story with Trump, says:

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n

If that story was untrue I would have written it to be a lot better.

n

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Stormy Daniels is being asked about a tweet in which she called Donald Trump “the orange turd” in response to someone attacking her.

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Exactly! Making me the best person to flush the orange turd down https://t.co/jYZTm2SOfK

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 27, 2024

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Daniels says:

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n

I’m pretty sure this is hyperbole – if someone calls me a toilet then I can say I can flush an orange turd down.

n

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Daniels adds:

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n

I’m also not a toilet. I mean I’m not a human toilet. If they want to make fun of me then I can make fun of them.

n

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Trump lawyer Susan Necheles doubles down on the line of questioning suggesting Stormy Daniels was motivated by money to tell her story, as part of the defense argument that Daniels was essentially extorting Trump.

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Daniels had previously said on Tuesday it wasn’t about the money. But just now, Trump team played a recording of her lawyer Keith Davidson telling Michael Cohen that Daniels had screamed at him, called him “a pussy”, and told him “he better sell this goddamn story” before the 2016 election otherwise they would lose all leverage.

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles is asking Stormy Daniels if she was looking for money from Donald Trump to sell her story.

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Necheles asks:

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n

You wanted money, right?”

n

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Daniels responds:

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n

I wanted the truth to come out.

n

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Trump lawyer Susan Necheles is pressing Stormy Daniels with rapid-fire questions over why she didn’t just take the story public and get no money in the leadup to the 2016 election if Daniels really just cared about getting the truth out.

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It appears part of an effort to put a dent in Daniels’ credibility and portray her as someone who was out to get money.

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Stormy Daniels, dressed in a green blouse, black sweater and glasses on her forehead has just taken the witness stand.

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You could hear the click-clack of her heels as she walked into the well.

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Donald Trump is entering the courtroom and pointed at someone in the press section who stood up to greet him as he walked in.

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He’s trailed by his lawyers, Alina Habba,Boris Epshteyn and Rick Scott. The senaotr is seated in the first row.

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Just before walking into the courtroom, Trump paused in the vestibule to talk with his attorney Todd Blanche and the small team that he entered with.

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Stormy Daniels, whose alleged sexual affair with Donald Trump prompted a hush-money scheme at the heart of the criminal case brought by the Manhattan district attorney, described in excruciating detail on Tuesday her encounters with the former US president.

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The testimony from Daniels appeared to be embarrassing for Trump, who shook his head at times, and was notably freewheeling – to the extent that the presiding judge sustained multiple objections, even as he denied a mistrial motion on the basis that key parts of her account were prejudicial.

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Daniels was allegedly wired $130,000 by ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen just before the 2016 election to bury her account of the affair. Prosecutors allege Trump later reimbursed Cohen the money but covered up its nature by falsifying business records and in doing so, violated state election laws.

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Here are the key takeaways from Tuesday, day 13 of Trump’s criminal trial.

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Stormy Daniels has arrived at the Manhattan courthouse for her second day of testimony.

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Daniels testified for nearly four hours on Tuesday. Here’s a recap of her first day on the stand:

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Daniels testified that she and Trump had a sexual liaison in 2006 that left her nervous and ashamed. Prosecutors allege that in 2015, Trump, his then lawyer Michael Cohen and tabloid honcho David Pecker plotted to bury stories that could thwart his Republican presidential bid. Cohen allegedly shuttled a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, to keep her from going public about her claimed sexual liaison with Trump.

Daniels said she had met Trump at a celebrity golf match in Lake Tahoe, and that she had gone to his hotel room under the belief that they would be getting dinner after meeting there. Per instructions from Trump’s bodyguard, Keith Schiller, she arrived at his penthouse to find Trump wearing “silk or satin pyjamas” and she asked him to change.

Daniels said Trump repeatedly grilled her on her time in the adult industry, including: “What about testing? Do you worry about STDs?” He asked whether she had been tested. She later testified that Trump did not use a condom.

Daniels said there was abrief discussion of Trump’s wife, Melania Trump, during which he said they slept in separate rooms. She also said he compared her to his daughter, Ivanka Trump.

Daniels said she used the restroom and when she exited, she saw Trump on the bed in his boxers and a T-shirt. “I just thought: oh my God, what did I misread to get here?” She said, comparing it to a “jump scare”. “The intention is pretty clear if someone’s stripped down to their underwear and on the bed.” She said it suddenly felt like the room was spinning, like blood was draining from her hands and feet.

Daniels said that she tried to make a joke and leave, but Trump stood up between her and the door. She testified that Trump told her: “I thought you were serious about what you wanted, if you want to get out of that trailer park.”

Daniels said she “blacked out” during her “brief” sexual encounter with Trump. “I was not drunk, I was not drugged … I just don’t remember,” she told the jury. She said she “was staring up at the ceiling and didn’t know how I got there”. She testified that she remembered her hands were “shaking so hard that I was having a hard time getting dressed” afterwards, and that Trump told her: “Let’s get together again, honey bunch!”

Trump’s team demanded a mistrial over what they said were prejudicial and irrelevant comments. The judge rejected the request and said defense lawyers should have raised more objections during the testimony.

Daniels said that in 2011, a man approached her at a Las Vegas car park and threatened her against coming forward. Her former attorney, Michael Avenatti, publicized a sketch of the man, and then filed a defamation suit after Trump denied involvement. Daniels said she thought a defamation claim was “risky” and “not worth it”, but that Avenatti filed it without her permission. The case was thrown out, in Trump’s favor.

Under cross examination, Daniels acknowledged that she “hates” Trump. “I want him to be held accountable,” she told the jury. Daniels also admitted she has chosen not to pay about $560,000 in legal fees that she owes to Trump after she filed and lost a defamation suit against him.

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Good morning and welcome back to our live coverage of Donald Trump’s hush-money trial where Stormy Daniels is returning to the stand for a second round of testimony.

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The adult film star, whose brief alleged affair with the former US president has been the subject of much salacious questioning by prosecutors, will face further cross-examination from the defense.

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The relationship between Trump and Daniels is central to the case because Trump’s then lawyer and personal fixer, Michael Cohen, paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about their alleged sexual encounter during the 2016 election campaign.

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Prosecutors argue that the money paid to Daniels was therefore an election expense and was deliberately entered wrongly in Trump’s business documents – with that act being the crime, rather than anything to do with the actual payment of hush money to cover up the alleged affair.

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However, during the last court session on Tuesday Daniels went into detailed descriptions of her sexual relationship with Trump, prompting a rebuke from Judge Juan Merchan and Trump’s lawyers to again bid – unsuccessfully – for a mistrial.

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Daniels testified that she pocketedabout $96,000 of the $130,000 payment, after her agent and lawyer took cuts. The news of the pay-off only emerged in the US media in 2018.

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Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in connection with the payments and had pleaded not guilty.

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Court is expected to resume at 9am ET. We’ll bring you all the latest from our reporting team in the Manhattan criminal courthouse as we get it.

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The court has now adjourned for the day, and is scheduled to resume at 9.30am ET tomorrow. Here’s a recap of the day’s events:

Donald Trump arrived in court on Thursday morning with the Florida senator Rick Scott among his entourage, part of a parade of supporters who have come to court to back the former president.
Stormy Daniels testified for a second day as the former president’s lawyers sought to undermine her in an attempt to persuade jurors that the case’s key prosecution witness cannot be believed.
Trump attorney Susan Necheles pressed on Daniels’ motivations for agreeing to a hush-money payment, asking her why she didn’t just go public with her story in the waning days of the 2016 campaign and instead sought to get paid for her story.
Necheles seemed to be trying to seed the idea that Daniels was more interested in getting a payout than telling the truth. “You wanted money, right?” Necheles said. Daniels said: “I wanted the truth to come out.”
Necheles tried to poke holes in Daniels’ story about her encounter with Trump, highlighting instances in which she said Daniels’ recollection had changed over the years. Daniels refused to concede any inconsistencies: “You’re trying to make it say that it changed but it hasn’t changed.”
Necheles also suggested that Daniels could make up a good story about having sex with Trump because of her experience in the adult entertainment industry. “If that story was untrue I would have written it to be a lot better,” Daniels fired back.
During redirect examination, prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked Daniels bluntly if she was telling the truth or lies about Trump. “The truth,” Daniels said. Hoffinger also asked Daniels whether the whole episode had been a net positive or net negative on her life. “Negative,” Daniels said.
Trump Organization bookkeeper Rebecca Manochio testified about sending unsigned checks for Trump to sign at the White House for his personal expenses. She told the jury that Trump and then Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg would speak at least once a day before Trump embarked on his run for president.
Donald Trump’s former personal assistant Madeleine Westerhoutwas also called as a witness. Westerhout, who was Trump’s personal secretary to Trump from 2017 to 2019 and the former director of Oval Office operations for the Trump White House from February to August 2019, is expected to return to the stand on Friday.
Westerhout worked for the Republican National Committee before going to the White House. She testified that the RNC was rattled by the Access Hollywood tape release and that there were “conversations” about replacing Trump as a presidential candidate.
The jury was shown a list of key contacts that Trump’s assistant at his company, Rhona Graff, put together for Westerhout, containing names including Michael Cohen, Allen Weisselberg, David Pecker, members of the Trump family, Fox News hosts and football legends.
Westerhout broke into tears as she described being fired from the White House after she spoke at an off-the-record dinner with journalists.
Judge Juan Merchan denied the defense’s request to modify the gag order so that Trump be allowed to respond publicly to Daniels’ testimony. Merchan, in denying the request, said his concern “is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole”.
Merchan also denied the defense’s renewed mistrial motion. Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that one of Daniels’ answers on the stand was “a dog whistle for rape”. Merchan said Trump’s lawyers had ample opportunities to object to questions that elicited what they say were damaging details about the alleged sexual encounter.

Judge Juan Merchan just gave a lengthy ruling where he explained why he was denying a mistrial for the second time this week.

Even though lurid details did come in, Trump’s lawyers had essentially opened themselves up to them by denying in their opening statements that Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels ever had sex. Merchan said:

These details add a sense of credibility if the jury chooses to believe them.

Merchan also castigated Trump attorney Susan Necheles, saying “for the life of me” he couldn’t figure out why she didn’t object to questions about whether Trump used a condom.

The testimony came after Merchan had sustained similar objections in Daniels’ testimony. He also noted that Necheles had pressed Daniels on details about the incident after Trump’s team said they were prejudicial, hammering them into the heads of the jury.

Judge denies motion for mistrial

The judge denies the defense’s motion for a mistrial.

Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass says that during direct, Judge Juan Merchan sustained an objection to a question when Stormy Daniels was asked if she felt anything unusual during sex.

At one point Ms Daniels was asked ‘Did you feel anything unusual.’ The answer was going to be ‘I felt like what it felt like to feel the skin of a 60-year-old man. I was 27 and that was different than anything that I had ever felt before.’

He says he has other details and he’s willing to make a sealed record.

Steinglass is fuming, and says he wants to correct Trump attorney Todd Blanche that they didn’t “change their mind” on calling Karen McDougal – she was always on the witness list and they just decided not to call her.

Donald Trump is passing more notes to his attorney Todd Blanche as he listens to prosecutor Joshua Steinglass, who is heatedly defending Stormy Daniels’ testimony.

Steinglass says:

Those details of what happened in that room. That was Mr Trump’s motive to silence this woman in 2016 less than a month before the election.

Trump attorney slams Stormy Daniels’ testimony as ‘a dog whistle for rape’

Trump attorney Todd Blanche concludes his request for a mistrial, saying that Stormy Daniels’ testimony was a “dog whistle for rape”.

Trump attorney renews request for a mistrial

Trump attorney Todd Blanche is arguing for a mistrial. The defense requested a mistrial earlier this week that was denied by Judge Juan Merchan.

Blanche is arguing that the prosecution led Stormy Daniels to disclose lurid and irrelevant details about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. It wasn’t that she was “out of control”.

Blanche is discussing details prosecutors sought about what Daniels says she saw in the bathroom in Trump’s suite and how she reacted when she allegedly saw Trump on the bed.

Judge denies motion to modify gag order

Judge Juan Merchan denies the defense’s request to modify a court-imposed gag order to allow Donald Trump to respond to testimony by Stormy Daniels.

Merchan says:

My concern is not just with protecting Ms Daniels or a witness who has already testified. My concern is with protecting the integrity of these proceedings as a whole.

Merchan continues:

Other people will see you doing it … Other witnesses, including not only Michael Cohen, other witnesses will see your client doing whatever it is he intends to do.

The reason why the gag order is in place to begin with “is precisely because of the nature of these attacks”, the judge says.

The nature, the vitriol … your client’s track record speaks for itself here. I can’t take your word for it that he says I’m just going to speak the facts.

Trump attorney asks for gag order to be lifted to respond to Stormy Daniels’ testimony

Trump attorney Todd Blanche says Donald Trump will be “asked repeatedly over the next week or two about these new accusations of consent and of what happened that night”.

He says:

There’s voters out there and there’s questioners who will ask him questions about it and he can’t say anything.

Speaking for the prosecution, Chris Conroy says, “It seems as though the other side almost lives in an alternate reality.”

Conroy says:

This is where facts are brought out. If somebody wants to respond to something that’s said in this room, it can happen in this room.

Trump is passing notes to Todd Blanche as Conroy argues against lifting of gag order.

Conroy continues to argue that “the fact that witnesses are brave enough to come here under subpoena, tell the truth under oath, shouldn’t expose them” to Trump’s barrage of attacks.

Karen McDougal will not be testifying in trial, says defense

Trump attorney Todd Blanche says the prosecution has informed him that they no longer intend to call Karen McDougal as a witness.

Blanche asks the judge that Donald Trump be allowed to respond to Stormy Daniels’ testimony earlier today and on Tuesday.

Blanche says:

We ask that President Trump be allowed to respond publicly to what happened in court the last day and a half. The press reporting over the last 24 hours about the current version of the story that we believe is completely false … is completely different in kind than the denials and stories that have come forth since as far back as 2011 and 2014.

Blanche adds:

As we’ve said repeatedly, he needs an opportunity to respond to the American people. The reasons for the gag order as they relate to Ms Daniels are over. She’s no longer a witness.

The jury is being dismissed for the day.

The court is taking a short break, after which the defense is expected to present more motions including for a mistrial.

Donald Trump has left the courtroom.

Madeleine Westerhout is describing the relationship between Donald Trump and Melania Trump.

Sometimes Trump would be on the phone in the Oval Office and tell Melania to come to a window in the residence to wave. Other times he would tell her he was about to board Marine One and called just to check in.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is clarifying that when Westerhout interacted with Trump Organization officials it was to deal with personal matters for Trump, but not business affairs.

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