Donald Trump’s criminal trial entered a new stage on Tuesday with testimony from Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of his hush-money scandal. Daniels testified for nearly four hours today, and is expected to return to the stand on Thursday.

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Here’s a recap of what happened today:

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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.

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• 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.

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• Daniels said Trump repeatedly grilled Daniels 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 during their sexual encounter.

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• 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: “You remind me of my daughter. She is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well.” She said that during their conversation, Trump dangled the idea of putting her on his TV show The Apprentice.

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• 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.

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• 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.”

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• 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!”

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• After a lunch break, Trump’s team demanded a mistrial over what they said were prejudicial and irrelevant comments. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view,” defense lawyer Todd Blanche said. “Aside from pure embarrassment,” Blanche told Merchan, these details did nothing but “inflame the jury”. The judge rejected the request and said defense lawyers should have raised more objections during the testimony.

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• 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.

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• 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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• The jury heard from another witness in the morning: Sally Franklin,an executive at Penguin Random House. The prosecution asked her to read excerpts from Trump’s books including Trump: How to Get Rich and Trump: Think Like a Billionaire.

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The US district judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s trial date in Florida in the case where the former president is charged with retaining national security documents.

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From Politico’s Kyle Cheney:

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BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.https://t.co/SScVNc0KADpic.twitter.com/xnmlCjK92X

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 7, 2024

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Donald Trump, speaking to the media after court adjourned for the day, described today’s court proceedings as a “very big day”.

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Trump, standing next to his attorney Todd Blanche, said:

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So this was a very big day, a very revealing day as you see their case is totally falling apart. They have nothing on books and records and even something that should bear very little relationship to the case. It’s just a disaster for the DA, the Soros-backed disaster. This whole case is a disaster.

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Stormy Daniels has left the stand for the day and walked out of the room. Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ cross of Daniels will resume on Thursday.

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Trump has left the courtroom.

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On cross, Trump attorney Susan Necheles is doggedly trying to convey that Stormy Daniels’ presence in court is a financially motivated personal vendetta.

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Not only does Daniels hate Donald Trump, but she doesn’t want to pay him money owed to him.

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Necheles also pointed to one of Daniels’ tweets, where she compares him to an orange excrement.

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I don't owe him shit and I'll never give that orange turd a dime 😂

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) November 10, 2022

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Why did she make fun of his appearance, Necheles asked?

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Because he made fun of me first.

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So, Necheles asked, one of you started it, but both continued the feud?

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Then came Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ questions on Stormy Daniels’ view on Trump.

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“Am I correct in that you hate President Trump?” Yes.

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“And you want him to go to jail?”

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I want him to be held accountable.

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“Part of the reason you hate him is because he won a legal case against you, and you owe him today, over half a million dollars, right?” Necheles said.

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“He didn’t win the case – he won attorneys fees.

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“So you agree with me, he won the case and he was awarded over half a million dollars in legal fees?” Correct.

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Susan Necheles is conducting the cross-examination for Trump.

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“Is it correct that you had mock cross-examination done?” Necheles asked. Daniels said she’d been asked questions similar to cross in difficult sessions, but maybe she’d misused the word “mock”.

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Necheles pounced:

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So when you said that before, you were not being truthful?

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Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked Stormy Daniels about the statement she signed denying the sexual encounter withDonald Trump.

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Daniels said the denial statement was “not true” and that it was signed on the advice of her lawyer, Keith Davidson.

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Asked if she knew Davidson would send the statement to Trump’s then fixer, Michael Cohen, Daniels said yes.

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Daniels said her life turned into “chaos” after the Wall Street Journal ran the story on 12 January 2017. She said:

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I was front and foremost everywhere.

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Daniels said her family was “ostracized” from her daughter’s playgroup and her riding stable after the WSJ story came out.

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Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is resuming her direct examination of Stormy Daniels.

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When we left off, we were discussing some of the delays in payment in dealing with Michael Cohen and Mr Trump.

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Daniels is reading an email from Keith Davidson to Michael Cohenin October 2016. “No payment was received,” wrote Davidson, who was Daniels’ lawyer handling the $130,000 payout.

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Hoffinger asked whether Daniels spoke with a news outlet. She said yes, Slate, but the publication was not going to pay her.

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Judge Juan Merchan is responding to Blanche’s push for mistrial.

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“I agree that there are probably some things that would have been [left] better unsaid,” Merchan said.

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In fairness to the people, I think your witness was a little difficult to control … having said that I do think there were guardrails in place, I do think the court had instructed the prosecution there were certain details they didn’t need to get into.

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Merchan says:

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I’m going to deny the motion for a mistrial at this time.

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Trump lawyer Todd Blanche is pointing to Stormy Daniels using the phrase “blacked out,” and saying that Donald Trump didn’t wear a condom.

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“The fact that there’s a bodyguard outside the room, the power dynamic,” Blanche said, alluding to some things in Daniels’ testimony.

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“Aside from pure embarrassment,” Blanche said, these details do nothing but “inflame the jury”.

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“She testified that there were communications with Donald Trump afterward and that she thought something bad would happen and …not being safe,” Blanche said.

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It’s still extraordinarily prejudicial to insert safety concerns into a trial about trial records ….for years, including up to 2016, which is when she was peddling this story. She talked about a consensual encounter with President Trump, that she was trying to sell – and that’s not the story that we heard today. We heard a completely different story.

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Prosecutors elicit more important testimony from Stormy Daniels undercutting another of Donald Trump’s defense claims that he was being extorted by her and her lawyer, Keith Davidson.

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Daniels says she didn’t negotiate for more money than $130,000 because she “didn’t care” about the money.

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Her financial situation was “the best it had ever been” and all she wanted was the story to remain secret – because she had not told her boyfriend – and just wanted all of it to be over.

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Stormy Daniels said that she met with Donald Trump again at the Trump Tower in 2007 after he suggested she visit.

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Daniels testified that she went up to his office to meet him and that she also met with his assistant, Rhona Graff, in the lobby area.

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She said that during their meeting, Daniels recalled Trump telling her that he was “still working on the Apprentice thing”. She said Trump also offered her tickets to pageants, NBC reported.

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Asked if he seemed concerned about others seeing her there, she said:

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n

Oh no, he introduced me to everybody. He just seemed busy.

n

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The judge, Juan Merchan, is clearly unhappy with the Stormy Daniels testimony.

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He warned prosecutors before the trial resumed after the morning break that much of her testimony had so far been irrelevant to the case – and at times it has felt like Daniels gossiping for sport, except for when the mood turned serious when she talked about how she came to have sex with Donald Trump.

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Still, Judge Merchan on multiple occasions has now admonished Daniels for talking at length about the encounter, often in an unserious manner and at times making faces.

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“Just listen to the question and answer the question,” Merchan has instructed her, after sustaining objection after objection from the defense.

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The prosecution asks Stormy Daniels if Donald Trump asked her to keep their encounter confidential. Daniels says no.

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Did he express any concern at that point with his wife finding out? Daniels says no.

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The prosecution asks Stormy Daniels if she remembers getting dressed after having sex with Donald Trump.

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Daniels says:

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n

Sitting on the edge of the bed, noticing that it was absolutely completely dark outside now, it was really hard to get my shoes on because my hands were shaking so hard … My hands were shaking so hard that I was having a hard time getting dressed.

n

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She is asked what Trump said to her. She says Trump said:

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n

Let’s get together again, honeybunch!

n

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The prosecution asks: “Did you say no at anytime?” “No.” “Why not?” Daniels says:

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n

Because I didn’t say anything at all.

n

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What did Trump say when she was leaving?

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n

He said that we have to get together again soon, went to kiss me goodbye, I just left as fast as I could. That was it.

n

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Stormy Daniels is asked what happened after she told Donald Trump that she wanted to leave.

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n

I just think I blacked out – I was not drunk I was not drugged … I just don’t remember.

n

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She says at some point, she ended up on the bed having sex with Trump.

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n

The next thing I know is I was on the bed, somehow on the opposite side of the bed from where we had been standing, I had my clothes and my shoes off … we were in missionary position.

n

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She said she “was staring up at the ceiling and didn’t know how I got there”.

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“Was he wearing a condom?” the prosecution asked. Daniels said: “No.”

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“Was that concerning to you?” Daniels replied: “Yes.”

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Did you say anything about it? Daniels said: “I didn’t say anything at all.”

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And was it brief? “Yes.”

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Stormy Daniels is describing what happened after she went into the bathroom of Donald Trump’s penthouse suite, where she saw a “leather-looking toiletry bag” containing products such as Old Spice.

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She says that when she came out of the bathroom, she saw Trump wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt. She wasn’t expecting him to be there minus a lot of clothing, she said. She said:

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n

At first I was just startled, like a jump scare … and that’s when I had that moment where I felt like the room spun in slow motion and I felt the blood basically leave my hands and my feet, almost like if you stand up too fast … 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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Stormy Daniels later said Donald Trump told her she reminded her of his daughter Ivanka, when he was trying to convince her that appearing on The Apprentice would be good for her career:

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n

You remind me of my daughter, she is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well.

n

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Stormy Daniels has been testifying at a rapid pace about how she first met Donald Trump in July 2006 at a golf tournament, after which Trump invited her up to his room for dinner.

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Daniels recounted in incredible detail the foyer to his hotel suite, how Trump initially came out in silk-satin pyjamas that she told him to change out of, which he did, and how they made small talk.

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At one point, Daniels said she talked with Trump about his wife, Melania, as they flicked through photos. She told him Melania was beautiful, but recalled Trump said not to worry because “we don’t even sleep in the same room”.

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Stormy Daniels said that her boss from Wicked introduced Donald Trump to all of his contract workers and when he got to her, revealed that she was also a director. Trump, she recalled, said she must be pretty smart if she directed too.

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Daniel was asked whether they ran into each other again at the tourament. She said that they did, in one of the gift rooms.

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Like I mentioned, every party came through, there’s so many photos of the girls with all the celebrities that came through that day … He did remember us from the golf course – he remembered me specifically, that I was the smart one.

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“We did have our DVDs, our adult films there, he did ask for one I directed.” Daniels said it was called Three Wishes. They spoke very briefly.

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At one point, one of Trump’s bodyguards came over and said “Mr Trump was interested in having me join him for dinner.” Hoffinger asked Daniels: What was your answer? “No.”

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Stormy Daniels, asked by prosecutors to pick out Donald Trump in the courtroom during her direct examination, identifies him at the defense table.

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Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked:

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n

Do you see Mr Trump in the courtroom today?

n

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“Uh, navy blue jacket,” Daniels said, pointing to the defense table.

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Susan Hoffinger, in asking Stormy Daniels about her background, is making her a sympathetic character.

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The prosecutor knows that Donald Trump’s team is going to try chipping away at Daniels’ credibility, so she is showing that the adult actress is a dynamic, kind, intelligent woman.

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Daniels testified that she had received a full scholarship for veterinary medicine but didn’t attend, because of the cost. She got into the adult industry in high school, when Daniels met someone at a horse stable where she worked, who turned out to be an exotic dancer.

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n

I started dancing on the weekends, which was actually kind of cool because I didn’t have to miss any classes, and I could make more in two nights than I did shoveling manure eight hours a day.

n

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Hoffinger also prompted Daniels to discuss how she left home early, at age 17. “My mother was very neglectful, she would disappear for days at the time,” Daniels recalled.

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n

I wish I could say she was some kind of addict, because that would be some sort of excuse…

n

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Hoffigner asked Daniels whether she’d supported herself since leaving home as a teen. “Yes,” Daniels said.

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The prosecution calls its next witness: Stormy Daniels.

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Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, says she met Donald Trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament. Daniels was 27 at the time and Trump was 60 and Daniels has always said the sex was consensual.

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Just before the 2016 election, Daniels said she was approached by Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer at the time, and offered $130,000 not to disclose the alleged affair. She accepted the money. “The story was coming out again. I was concerned for my family and their safety,” Daniels told 60 Minutes in 2018.

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After the Wall Street Journal broke the story of the payment, Daniels sued Trump to release her from the non-disclosure agreement. She said it was void because it had not been signed by Trump.

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The prosecution has called its first witness of the day: Sally Franklin, the senior vice-president and executive managing editor for Penguin Random House publishing group.

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Juan Merchan allows – over Donald Trump’s objections – the Manhattan district attorney’s office to call Stormy Daniels as the second witness today.

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Trump, wearing a lemon-yellow tie today, appears unimpressed.

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Trump attorney Susan Necheles reveals that Stormy Daniels is expected to be the prosecution’s second witness for the day.

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She’s fighting to keep details about the alleged sex act between Daniels and Donald Trump under wraps.

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It is “likely” that Stormy Daniels, an adult film star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, will be called to testify today, her lawyer told the Associated Press.

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The $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels is at the center of this trial.

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Trump said earlier Tuesday that he was “recently told” who the witness would be on Tuesday and complained he should’ve been given more notice, the Associated Press reports.

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Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York entered a new phase on Monday, as prosecutors moved onto the alleged falsification of business records to cover up hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, after previously calling witnesses who described a conspiracy to kill the story.

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Three major takeaways of the day:

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• Prosecutors argue Cohen’s ‘expenses’ were not processed as expenses

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• Trump argues ‘legal expense’ was a dropdown label, not a falsification

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• Trump warned of jail for further gag-order violations

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For more on these points, you can read the full story below:

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Donald Trump’s criminal trial over hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels continues on Tuesday – and it could take at least another two weeks for prosecutors to finish presenting their case.

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Trumpcomplained about this as he was leaving. Repeating previous false claims, he insisted the trial was merely a ruse to keep the Republican party’s presumptive presidential nominee “off the campaign trail”.

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“I thought they would be finished today,” Trump said. “The judge is so happy about two or three more weeks because they all want to keep me off the campaign trail. That’s all this is about, election interference”.

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Trump will have to watch what he says after Monday earned him another $1,000 fine for violating a gag order that bars him from attacking witnesses, jurors and other key people involved in the trial.

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It was the 10th time he was held criminal contempt and the judge, Juan Merchan, warned him yet again he could face jail for continued violations.

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Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of Donald Trump’s criminal trial over his hush-money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

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The trial reopened yesterday after a pause over the weekend. It was another lively day with a stern warning from the judge, Juan Merchan, that additional violations of a gag order barring Trump from inflammatory out-of-court comments about witnesses, jurors and others closely connected to the case could result in jail time.

The $1,000 fine imposed on Monday marks the second time since the trial began last month that Trump has been sanctioned for violating the gag order. He was fined $9,000 last week, $1,000 for each of nine violations.

“It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. Therefore going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction,” Merchan said before jurors were brought into the courtroom.

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The first witness called this week was Jeffrey McConney, former Trump Organization comptroller and senior vice-president.

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Through McConney’s testimony, the prosecution sought to show that Trump had intimate knowledge of his personal and companies’ finances – and that repayments to Michael Cohen were out-of-the-ordinary for his boss.

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Next up was Deborah Tarasoff, who works for The Trump Organization as an accounts payable supervisor. Tarasoff’s time on the stand seemed to establish just how intertwined Trump was with his underlings. Cohen, she said, worked next to her and then elsewhere on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, the nerve center of his company.

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Here’s a quick recap of their testimonies yesterday:

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• Deborah Tarasoff, a former accountant at the Trump Organization, testified that Trump personally signed reimbursement checks to his “fixer” Michael Cohen, who made the payment to adult movie star Stormy Daniels that is at the heart of this case. Showing that Trump signed them chips away at the defense claim that Trump was detached from the transactions.

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• Tarasoff was led through a succession of checks to Cohen that she cut, then sent to Trump for signing, some while the former president was in the White House. The purpose appeared to be giving the jury a clear understanding of the regular practices in place at the company, and how the hush-money payment to Daniels veered outside normal procedures to point of illegality.

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• Jeffrey McConney, the Trump Organization’s retired controller and senior vice-president, was pressed by the prosecution on the company’s accounting and reporting procedures, focusing on the argument that Trump was in full control of his personal and company finances, and had authorized and was aware of the purpose of the payment to Daniels.

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• Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove got McConney to concede he had never spoken with Trump about repayments to Cohen, and had never been directed to register the payments in a certain way, or improperly.

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• Bove suggested there was no falsification, in part because of the narrow way Trump Organization payments had to be recorded, using the drop-down menu of an “antiquated” software recording system.

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• Additionally, McConney conceded that Cohen was Trump’s personal lawyer, and said he always recorded payments to lawyers as “legal expenses” in the ledger during his 36-plus years with the company.

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Closing summary

Donald Trump’s criminal trial entered a new stage on Tuesday with testimony from Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of his hush-money scandal. Daniels testified for nearly four hours today, and is expected to return to the stand on Thursday.

Here’s a recap of what happened today:

• 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 Daniels 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 during their sexual encounter.

• 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: “You remind me of my daughter. She is smart and blonde and beautiful and people underestimate her as well.” She said that during their conversation, Trump dangled the idea of putting her on his TV show The Apprentice.

• 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!”

• After a lunch break, Trump’s team demanded a mistrial over what they said were prejudicial and irrelevant comments. “There’s no way to unring that bell, in our view,” defense lawyer Todd Blanche said. “Aside from pure embarrassment,” Blanche told Merchan, these details did nothing but “inflame the jury”. 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.

• The jury heard from another witness in the morning: Sally Franklin,an executive at Penguin Random House. The prosecution asked her to read excerpts from Trump’s books including Trump: How to Get Rich and Trump: Think Like a Billionaire.

Judge indefinitely postpones Trump’s classified documents trial date

The US district judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s trial date in Florida in the case where the former president is charged with retaining national security documents.

From Politico’s Kyle Cheney:

BREAKING: Judge CANNON has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.https://t.co/SScVNc0KADpic.twitter.com/xnmlCjK92X

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) May 7, 2024

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Trump says today was a ‘very revealing day’

Donald Trump, speaking to the media after court adjourned for the day, described today’s court proceedings as a “very big day”.

Trump, standing next to his attorney Todd Blanche, said:

So this was a very big day, a very revealing day as you see their case is totally falling apart. They have nothing on books and records and even something that should bear very little relationship to the case. It’s just a disaster for the DA, the Soros-backed disaster. This whole case is a disaster.

Court adjourned for the day

Stormy Daniels has left the stand for the day and walked out of the room. Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ cross of Daniels will resume on Thursday.

Trump has left the courtroom.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is asking about the alleged 2011 threat to keep quiet about the former president, once again to insist that it didn’t actually happen.

So you decided in 2016, well, I’m going to sell my story, you weren’t afraid?

Stormy Daniels told Necheles that she was “very different” and more brave, in 2016 than in 2011.

Necheles pressed on with her suggestion that Daniels was trying to shake down Trump.

You were looking to extort money from President Trump, right?

“False”, Daniels said. “Well, that’s what you did, right?” “False!”

Donald Trump has returned to court following a brief break. His son, Eric, has sat back down in the front row, once again alongside Alina Habba.

Stormy Daniels has returned to the stand.

During the break, Trump was asked how today’s proceedings were going. “Very well”, he replied, per pool.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is grilling Stormy Daniels on why she didn’t come forward with the sex claim for 10 years.

Daniels shot back that she told multiple people – including friends – and had effectively told the story during a radio show interview around 2007.

Necheles asked if she thought that Michael Cohen had sent a man to threaten Daniels in 2011; Daniels previously believed that Cohen was responsible for the threat.

Daniels earlier told the jury about being approached by a man in the parking lot of a shopping center in Las Vegas in June 2011 who she said “threatened me not to continue to tell my story”.

The prosecution asked: “But now you and Michael Cohen are buddies, right?” Daniels replied:

I wouldn’t say buddies.

But you’ve been on his podcast a couple of times? “For him to apologize.”

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is asking Stormy Daniels about whether she considered getting high-profile women’s rights attorney Gloria Allred to represent her in 2011.

You told Gloria Allred that you did not have sex with President Trump, didn’t you?

Daniels denied this. “I told her I did.”

Necheles’ line of questioning stems from Daniels’ book, Full Disclosure, where she describes speaking with Allred on the phone – but not telling her about sex with Trump. Daniels said:

I did not tell her all these sex details, I did not trust her.

“You’re making this up as you sit there, right?” Necheles pressed. “No.”

Trump attorney Susan Necheles returns to money.

You’ve been making money by claiming to have had sex with Donald J Trump, for more than a decade?

“I’ve been making money telling my story [about] what happened,” replied an increasingly irked Daniels.

“It has made you a lot of money?” Daniels shot back:

It has also cost me a lot of money.

Daniels asked about tweet calling Trump an ‘orange turd’

On cross, Trump attorney Susan Necheles is doggedly trying to convey that Stormy Daniels’ presence in court is a financially motivated personal vendetta.

Not only does Daniels hate Donald Trump, but she doesn’t want to pay him money owed to him.

Necheles also pointed to one of Daniels’ tweets, where she compares him to an orange excrement.

I don't owe him shit and I'll never give that orange turd a dime 😂

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) November 10, 2022

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I don’t owe him shit and I’ll never give that orange turd a dime 😂

— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) November 10, 2022

Why did she make fun of his appearance, Necheles asked?

Because he made fun of me first.

So, Necheles asked, one of you started it, but both continued the feud?

‘I want him to be held accountable’: Daniels says she ‘hates’ Trump

Then came Trump attorney Susan Necheles’ questions on Stormy Daniels’ view on Trump.

“Am I correct in that you hate President Trump?” Yes.

“And you want him to go to jail?”

I want him to be held accountable.

“Part of the reason you hate him is because he won a legal case against you, and you owe him today, over half a million dollars, right?” Necheles said.

“He didn’t win the case – he won attorneys fees.

“So you agree with me, he won the case and he was awarded over half a million dollars in legal fees?” Correct.

“The prosecutors began their direct testimony today by asking you why you started acting in pornography, right?” Trump attorney Susan Necheles said.

“They asked me why? I don’t think they asked me why,” answered Stormy Daniels, who seemed irked.

Necheles asked about why she got into the industry, asking:

It’s that simple: “You want[ed] more money?

Daniels said:

Don’t we all want more money in our jobs?

Necheles grilled Daniels on whether money was her main motive with things.