Trump’s history-making hush-money trial begins ...(Mod Warning)

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Stormy came out of bathroom and Trump was on the bed in boxer shorts and T-shirt,

 

1 min ago
Trump looks straight ahead with scowl on face


Donald Trump is looking straight ahead with a scowl on his face for much of the questioning about the hotel interaction.



4 min ago
Daniels says she and Trump were only drinking water at hotel
Questioning is picking back up with the hotel interaction between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump.

Daniels said she drank a couple bottles of water while they were talking, noting that's all they were drinking.

 

7m ago / 11:43 AM EDT
Judge Merchan tells prosecution that Daniels is giving too much detail

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Daniel Arkin, Gary Grumbach and Summer Concepcion
After returning to the bench from a short break, Judge Merchan told prosecutor Susan Hoffinger that he thinks Daniels is divulging too many "unnecessary" details in her testimony.

“Ms. Hoffinger, I think the degree of detail that we are going into here is just unnecessary," Merchan said, pointing to Daniels' testimony detailing the floor of the penthouse where she encountered Trump.

 

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Daniels mentions sex position.

Objection sustained by Merchan

 

3 min ago
"The intention was pretty clear," Daniels testifies about seeing Trump in his underwear and posing for her


"The intention was pretty clear, somebody stripped down to their underwear and is posing for you," Stormy Daniels testified.

“He stood up between me and the door. Not in a threatening manner. He didn’t come at me, he didn’t rush at me. Nothing like that," Daniels said.

"When I exited he was just up on the bed, like this," Daniels said, lifting her leg up from her chair.

4 min ago
Daniels says she was "startled" seeing Trump on the bed
Stormy Daniels says she "felt like the room spun in slow motion" when she left the bathroom.

"I felt the blood leave my hands and my feet almost like if you stand up too fast," Daniels says. "I thought, 'oh my god, what did i misread to get here?'"

"At first I was just startled, like a jump scare. I wasn’t expecting someone to be there, especially minus a lot of clothing," she says of Trump, who she says was sitting on the bed in boxers and a T-shirt.

 

1m ago / 11:54 AM EDT
Prosecution asks if Daniels felt anything 'unusual' while having sex with Trump

Adam Reiss

The prosecution asked Daniels if she felt anything "unusual" while having sex with Trump. The defense objected and the objection was sustained.

1m ago / 11:53 AM EDT
Stormy Daniels said she wound up on the bed having sex with Trump


Adam Reiss and Rebecca Shabad
Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked Stormy Daniels, "Did you end up on the bed having sex with him?"

"Yes," she said, adding that she went to the opposite side of the bed and had her clothes and shoes off.

“The next thing I know, 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," she said.

2m ago / 11:53 AM EDT
Judge gets angry at the prosecution


Jillian Frankel and Rebecca Shabad
The defense appeared to make an objection, which Judge Merchan sustained. He seemed to be angry at prosecutors and has warned them not to get into unnecessary detail.

 

1 min ago
Trump has tapped arm of his attorney a few times, prompting her to voice objections during Daniels' testimony


Donald Trump has gestured to his attorney Susan Necheles or tapped her arm, prompting her to object a few times during Stormy Daniels' testimony about her memory.

He is engaged with the defense as Daniels' direct examination continues.

1 min ago
Daniels confirms Trump didn't ask her to keep encounter confidential
Stormy Daniels testified that Donald Trump did not express concern about his wife Melania when they had the encounter.

Daniels confirmed he also didn't ask her to keep it confidential.

"I told very few people that we had actually had sex because I felt ashamed that I didn’t stop it," Daniels said.



3 min ago
Daniels testifies that she "left as fast as I could"
Stormy Daniels says she remembers sitting at the end of the bed. She says "it was really hard to get my shoe on because my hands were shaking so hard."

"I just left as fast as I could. That was it," she says.



4 min ago
Daniels describes what happened next in the hotel room
Stormy Daniels is describing what happened next in the hotel room.

"I had my clothes and my shoes off. I removed my bra. We were in missionary position," Daniels says.

Asked if she remembers how her clothes came off, she says no. "Next thing I know I was on the bed," she testifies.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is trying to elicit more details, but the objections are sustained.

 

3m ago / 11:57 AM EDT
Jury has remained expressionless through testimony about sex

Laura Jarrett

Jury is mostly expressionless throughout the last portion of Daniels' testimony about having sex with Trump.

 

1 min ago
Judge interjects in Daniels' testimony, telling her to listen to the questions and answer


Judge Juan Merchan interjected as Stormy Daniels was beginning to go on a tangent about her publicist, saying it was good she had dinner with Donald Trump.

Merchan told Daniels to listen to the question and answer the question.


2 min ago
Daniels says she started speaking to Trump often after hotel encounter
Stormy Daniels says in the weeks after they met, she began speaking with Trump often, at times once a week.

“I’d always put him on speaker phone,” she says, noting that “dozens and dozens of people” heard her on the phone with Trump. She adds that she didn’t tell him when he was on speaker phone.

Daniel also notes that Trump called her “honey bunch,” which she says was “weird.”


4 min ago
Daniels says she told several friends about sexual encounter with Trump
Stormy Daniels says she told her friend Keith about the encounter. He was a photographer and she rented her house from him, describing him as a close friend.

She then went on to list several other friends she told.

“I told lots and lots of people that I had gone to his room and I met him. It wasn’t a secret at all,” Daniels says. “The sex part I told very few, very close people.”


3 min ago
Daniels says she convinced Roethlisberger to let her try on his Super Bowl ring during Trump meeting
During her meeting with Trump at the night, Stormy Daniels says she convinced two-time Super Bowl champion Ben Roethlisberger to let her try on his Super Bowl ring.

Trump had been at a table with Roethlisberger when she approached them.


1 min ago
Daniels recalls meeting Trump at a night club
Stormy Daniels testified she met Trump at a night club the next day.

His bodyguard Keith Schiller called her and asked if she would meet with Trump again, and she agreed because it was in public.

Trump was at a table with Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger when she approached them.

“He introduced me as his little friend Stormy to ‘Big Ben,’” she said. Daniels confirmed he addressed the football player as “Big Ben.”


9 min ago
Daniels testifies she saw Trump the next day
“Did you see Mr. Trump again in Tahoe the next day?” prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asks, moving on from questions about Stormy Daniels’ memory of the encounter.

“Yes,” Daniels says.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

1 min ago
Daniels met Trump again in 2007 at his vodka launch


Stormy Daniels met with Trump in 2007 at the launch of his Trump vodka brand, she testified.

Daniels said she agreed to meet Trump because "for the same reasons."

"I wanted to maintain that sort of relationship because the chance to be on the 'Apprentice' was still up in the air. It would have been a great thing. It was a public place," she said.

Daniels said that she met Trump at his VIP booth. "He leaned over and gave me a kiss and shook my friends’ hand," she said.

Daniels said that hundreds of people were at the event.

3 min ago
Daniels says Trump gave her his assistant's phone number
Donald Trump gave Stormy Daniels his assistant Rhona Graff's phone number around the summer of 2006, Daniels says.

She recalled writing it on a piece of paper by her bed then later entering it into her phone.

The jury is shown a contact from Daniels' phone. It is "D Trump Rona," a reference to Graff.

Remember: Graff testified that she recalled entering Daniels cell phone number into Trump's Trump Organization contacts. She was listed in Trump's system as "Stormy."

That contact was just displayed to the jury, and Daniels confirmed that is her phone number.


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

1 min ago
Daniels says Trump introduced her to Karen McDougal


At Donald Trump's vodka launch party, Stormy Daniels says Trump introduced her to
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his friend Karen. She later learned it was Karen McDougal, she testifies.

 

2 min ago
Daniels testifies Trump asked if she had plans later during 2007 party


Stormy Daniels says that at the 2007 party, Trump asked if she had plans that night.

She says she lied and told him her friend were "flying out on a girls trip" that night.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

1 min ago
Daniels says she and her assistant met with Trump for a quick meeting at Trump Tower


Donald Trump invited her to meet with him in Trump Tower, Stormy Daniels says. She was in New York City for something else at the time, she says, so she didn't fly to New York just to meet Trump.

She says she also invited Trump to come to a show where she was performing. "It was a public place, lots of witnesses," Daniels said.

Daniels says when she arrived at Trump Tower, she met with Rhona Graff and then she and her assistant were brought into his office.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

The meeting was very fast, she says. Trump told her again, "I'm still working on the 'Apprentice' thing. I got some push back; I pushed back."

 

Butt butt Trump never met her so her level of details are all lies, eh?

1 min ago
Daniels says she met with Trump again in the summer of 2007 in Los Angeles


Stormy Daniels is recalling the times she met Trump, including seeing him again in the summer of 2007 in Los Angeles.

It was put together "the same way it always did. He'd call from a New York number or Keith's number or Rhona's (Graff)," she said, adding that "he said he had it almost sorted out for the show" — something he'd say every time he called to get together with her.



2 min ago
Daniels says Trump also invited her to pageant he was involved in
Stormy Daniels said that Donald Trump invited her and her assistant to an upcoming pageant he was involved in and gave her tickets to attend.

She confirms she attended the Miss USA Pageant in Hollywood.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

Trump has never had his body etc turned so far away from a witness.
He's also never nudged his lawyers so much as he's doing to Susan what's her name.

 

2 min ago
Daniels says she didn't tell her boyfriend about sexual encounter with Trump "because I was ashamed"


Stormy Daniels is testifying that she met with Trump along with her publicist, whom she was dating at the time.

"Had you told your boyfriend at that time what exactly happened in the hotel room at that point?" prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asks.

"Not the sexual part," Daniels says.

When Hoffinger asks why not, Daniels says, "Because I was ashamed."

 

Jonathan Turdley is an extreme outlier. An academic, it doesn't look like he's ever tried a case. He hasn't ever had any experience prosecuting a case. He's currently whoring his extreme opinions to the whacko RW and on Faux Snooze.

 

Trump only cared after the Access Hollywood tape was made public right before the 2016 election.

He knew she talked since 2011 when she let her Trump story be published on some gossip site.
2011-2012-2013-2014-2015 Trump didn't care if Stormy talked.

2 min ago
Daniels reiterates that it did not seem like Trump wanted to hide relationship


Stormy Daniels says she went to meet Donald Trump at his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel while her boyfriend, who was also her publicist, waited outside.

When she left, Daniels says that Trump told her he wanted "to get together again, miss you, the usual."

When asked again if Trump told her to keep it confidential or seemed like he wanted to hide their relationship, Daniels said, "absolutely not."

Trump is watching her in the courtroom, but makes no visible reaction.




https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html




https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

4 min ago
Daniels describes how she ended up doing an interview with In Touch


Stormy Daniels is now describing how she ended up doing an interview with In Touch Weekly magazine.

Trump yawned as she explained that she was supposed to be paid $15,000 for the article. In Touch never ran the story in 2011.



4 min ago
Daniels says she stopped taking Trump's calls after he told her he couldn't get her on "The Apprentice"
Stormy Daniels said she did not see Donald Trump in person again after this meeting at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

He eventually called to tell her he'd been "overruled" and couldn't get her on "The Apprentice." She stopped taking his calls after that, except one time when he called to tell her he didn't know Jenna Jameson would be on "The Apprentice."

She said he thought she'd be mad. "I didn't care," she said on the stand.

That was the last time she said she spoke to Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

Will Trump/Eric say it was such a boring testimony.
"Never been more bored in my life?" lol

 

1 min ago
Daniels says Davidson helped remove 2011 post after she was concerned about more threats


Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is asking Stormy Daniels about the 2011 dirty.com post.

Daniels said she never heard of the website and she wanted the post taken down.

Daniels said she was told about the post from Gina Rodriguez. She said she was concerned about it because she had been threatened.

"Very much so. I had been threatened and I didn’t want the person who threatened me and my baby thinking that I had done it," Daniels said.
Keith Davidson helped them get the post removed, Daniels confirmed. This is consistent with Davidson's testimony earlier in the trial.

Hoffinger asked if Davidson was successful at removing the post.

She testified, "I assume so because it came down."



2 min ago
Daniels testifies she was threatened by a man in a parking lot
Stormy Daniels said she was approached by a man in the parking lot of a shopping center in Las Vegas in June 2011 when she was with her infant to go to a mommy and me class.

"He approached me and threatened me not to continue to tell my story," Daniels said.

Daniels said she was "scared."

She confirms she didn't tell law enforcement and didn't tell her daughter's father about the threatening interaction in the parking lot, and she never told him about the original encounter with Trump either.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

1 min ago
Daniels says she learned Trump and Cohen were interested in buying her story after "Access Hollywood" tape


Stormy Daniels said she learned from Gina Rodriguez that Donald Trump and Michael Cohen were interested in buying her story.

She learned of this in October, after the "Access Hollywood" tape, Daniels says.



1 min ago
Daniels on selling story: "My motivation wasn't money"
Stormy Daniels is testifying that in 2016, her then-publicist Gina Rodriguez' focus was to sell her story to news outlets.

Asked if she thought about approaching Trump himself or Michael Cohen to have them pay for the story, Daniels says "no."

"My motivation wasn’t money. It was to get the story out," she says.

2 min ago
Daniels says she talked to her publicist about selling her story after the "Access Hollywood" tape came out
After the "Access Hollywood" tape came out, Stormy Daniels says she had conversations with her then-publicist Gina Rodriguez about selling her story.

She started to describe the conversations but Judge Juan Merchan sustained an objection to that answer.



3 min ago
Publicist said she could sell Daniels' story once Trump started campaigning, according to Daniels
After Donald Trump began running for president in 2015, Stormy Daniels confirms that her publicist Gina Rodriguez reached out and said she could sell the story of Daniels' story with Trump.

Daniels says "lots of people" reached out to her.

But before the "Access Hollywood" tape came out, Rodriguez was not successful in selling the story, she says.



https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

2 min ago
Trump and Cohen offered her $130,000, Daniels says


Stormy Daniels says Donald Trump and Michael Cohen offered her $130,000.

But "I didn’t care about the amount," she says, adding that at the time, her financial situation was "the best its ever been."

She says the agreement was a nondisclosure agreement, and that Trump was the beneficiary of the NDA.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-05-07-24/index.html

 

2 min ago
Daniels says she wanted agreement done quickly because she was concerned about the threat


Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger is having Stormy Daniels read the side letter agreement email her then-attorney Keith Davidson sent to Michael Cohen on October 11, 2016.

The jury saw this email during Davidson's testimony.

Daniels is asked if she wanted the story out by October 14, which was the deadline in the email

The email expressed dissatisfaction with a delay of funding the agreement. Daniels says she wanted the agreement done quickly because she was concerned about the threat from the Las Vegas man.

"Absolutely," Daniels says, saying if it wasn't done before the election, "I wouldn’t be safe or that he wouldn’t pay and there would be a trail to keep me safe."

 

Eric Trump just tweeted from courtroom.

"PURE EXTORTION !"

Wha?
Nothing that it's all Stormy LIES? LOL