charges are falsifying business records to hide #HushMoney payments in lead up to 2016 election to #influence electorate
just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.
#StormyDaniels's lawyer, #KeithDavidson, to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.
The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking #StormyDaniels whether she was arrested. Justice #Merchan agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”
The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand
#Trump atty #Necheles begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.
Cross-examination of #MichaelCohen resumes, an opportunity for the defense to poke holes in his testimony & perhaps trip up or provoke the state’s key witness. The questioning of Cohen, #Trump’s fmr fixer, is the beginning of the end of Trump’s #criminal trial, which began April 15 & might conclude before Memorial Day weekend at this pace.
“New York judge on Monday rejected a request by #Trump to exclude testimony by his former attorney #MichaelCohen in Trump's criminal trial stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, court filings showed.” #legal#StormyDaniels
In 2006, …Donald #Trump met the adult-film star #StormyDaniels. According to Daniels, things got intimate. (“The sex was nothing crazy,” she would go on to say.) A decade later, Trump was running for President, as a kind of #Republican uber-family man, drawing crucial support from #conservative, #evangelical voters. Daniels decided to go public: her encounter w/ Trump had taken place while he was already married to his third wife, Melania.
[NYTimes]: Stormy Daniels is now talking about meeting Trump for dinner. She says that when he first emerged from his hotel suite, he was wearing “silk or satin” pajamas, which Daniels compared to those often sported by Hugh Hefner. She asked him to change, and he returned in more standard dress clothes. By Jonah Bromwich
State Supreme Court judge blocked #Trump’s attempt to gain access to #NBC’s documentary material related to adult film actress #StormyDaniels.
Manhattan Judge Juan #Merchan said Trump atty’s subpoena was “far too broad” & did not meet the #legal standard to compel #NBCUniversal to turn over docs & other items related to the documentary “Stormy.”
Someone posted this and i did not want to disfigure their post. But I am not sure they got the caption correct. This looked like #stormydaniels taking #trump for a ride. #goldenboy maybe not. #trumptrial@GottaLaff so you get something to smile at today.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the testimony given by Stormy Daniels during Trump’s election interference trial.
Stormy apparently crossed a line or two during her testimony but it was far less destructive than Trump’s continued rhetoric about the trial and his antics inside that NY courtroom.
I almost want to applaud Daniels for using Trump’s own tactics against him. #stormydaniels#trumptrial
Let’s get real. Future felon Trump’s legal team demanding that the NY election interference trial be dismissed has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels being ‘combative’ … a tactic Trump himself constantly uses … it’s because they know Trump is going to lose.
Trump Forced to See Mean Memes About Him Shared by Prospective Jurors (www.rollingstone.com)
Seven jurors were selected for Trump's hush-money trial as others were dismissed for sharing negative memes and social media content about him.