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

1 min ago
Court is breaking for lunch


Judge Juan Merchan is excusing jury for lunch. They'll be back around 2 p.m. ET today.



2 min ago
Daniels has testified for roughly 2 hours so far
Stormy Daniels has been testifying for roughly two hours so far.



2 min ago
Daniels says she signed her real name on side letter agreement that used fake names
Stormy Daniels is now explaining the side letter agreement that used fake names — Peggy Peterson for Daniels and and David Dennison for Trump.

Daniels says signed "Stephanie Clifford" under the line Peggy Peterson aka Stephanie Gregory Clifford aka Stormy Daniels. Remember, Stephanie Clifford is Daniels' real name.

The side letter agreement has previously been shown during her former lawyer Keith Davidson's testimony.

The agreement included a handwritten list of nine names of people Daniels told about the encounter with Trump. Daniels confirmed she wrote the list.

 

4m ago / 12:49 PM EDT
Stormy Daniels said she understood $130K deal meant she and Trump had to act like strangers


Adam Reiss and Rebecca Shabad
Daniels said that as part of the $130,000 agreement barring her from telling her story about her sexual encounter with Trump, the two couldn't have any contact.

“We had to pretend that we didn’t know each other at all, basically," she testified.

5m ago / 12:48 PM EDT
Daniels says she knew Trump would benefit from her signing NDA

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Gary Grumbach, Alex Seitz-Wald, Jillian Frankel and Adam Reiss
Daniels says she accepted $130,000 to sign the non-disclosure agreement even though she understood Trump was the beneficiary of it.

In an exchange with the prosecution, she testified that Michael Cohen was representing Trump at the time. She said she signed the agreement because she wanted the whole ordeal to be over, not for the money.

7m ago / 12:45 PM EDT
Prosecution tries to anticipate cross-examination of Daniels

Laura Jarrett

The prosecution has tried on a number of occasions today to anticipate certain lines of questioning that are likely to arise on cross-examination, so that the jury hears the answers on her terms first.

For instance, Daniels has said that she wasn’t motivated by money, when the defense team is likely to claim she was; and she says she didn’t report the threatening interaction with the man in the parking lot to police, because she was scared.

https://www.nbcnews.com/

 

Trying to outdo the attention whore sleazebag Dershowitz.

 

Sketches show Tuesday morning's testimony from Stormy Daniels and Sally Franklin

From CNN Digital's Photo Desk




Stormy Daniels is questioned during Donald Trump's hush money trial on Tuesday. Jane Rosenberg
Adult film actress Stormy Daniels took the stand Tuesday morning in Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial.

She detailed her alleged one-night stand with Trump as she was questioned by prosecutor Susan Hoffinger. Trump has denied the affair.

Before Daniels' testimony, Sally Franklin was on the stand. Franklin, who works for publishing group Penguin Random House, was called to the stand by prosecutors to introduce excerpts from Trump's books into evidence.

Cameras are not allowed inside the courtroom during proceedings, but these sketches help give an idea of what it looked like.


Daniels testifies on Tuesday. Jane Rosenberg



The jury on Tuesday was shown a photo of Daniels next to Trump. In the photo, he was wearing a yellow golf shirt and a red hat. Jane Rosenberg



Daniels answers questions from the prosecution on Tuesday. Jane Rosenberg



Sally Franklin was called to the stand by prosecutors to introduce excerpts from Trump's books into evidence. Jane Rosenberg






9 min ago
Daniels doesn't look at Trump as she exits courtroom
Stormy Daniels exited the courtroom again without looking at Trump.

Attorney Todd Blanche was whispering into Trump's ear when she walked out.



11 min ago
Court is breaking for lunch
Judge Juan Merchan is excusing jury for lunch. They'll be back around 2 p.m. ET today.



9 min ago
Daniels said she was not paid when she was supposed to as Cohen kept making excuses
Stormy Daniels said she was not paid on October 14, 2016, like she was supposed to.

"I didn't know why it was late, he just kept making excuses," Daniels testified.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked who was making excuses.

"Trump to Cohen to Davidson," Daniels said.

"It wasn’t a financial delay, so it made me more concerned that something bad was going to happen. And if wasn’t done before the election, it was never going to happen," Daniels said.



12 min ago
Daniels has testified for roughly 2 hours so far
Stormy Daniels has been testifying for roughly two hours so far.



12 min ago
Daniels says she signed her real name on side letter agreement that used fake names
Stormy Daniels is now explaining the side letter agreement that used fake names — Peggy Peterson for Daniels and and David Dennison for Trump.

Daniels says signed "Stephanie Clifford" under the line Peggy Peterson aka Stephanie Gregory Clifford aka Stormy Daniels. Remember, Stephanie Clifford is Daniels' real name.

The side letter agreement has previously been shown during her former lawyer Keith Davidson's testimony.

The agreement included a handwritten list of nine names of people Daniels told about the encounter with Trump. Daniels confirmed she wrote the list.

 

The first day Trump didn't even look at the cameras when he exited court.
None with him, Eric etc looked either.

 

What does Melania think about her hubby and a porn star's "locker room" relationship?

 

Eric,still trying to be relevant.

16m ago / 12:52 PM EDT
Eric Trump tweets from the courtroom: 'Pure EXTORTION!!!!'

Summer Concepcion

Eric Trump, the adult son of the former president who is in attendance for today's court proceedings, slammed the trial in a post to his account on X, formerly known as Twitter.

"Pure EXTORTION!!!!" he wrote.

 

Please, please.
Let Karen McDougal be testifing.







'I have a blockbuster Trump story': Karen McDougal's ...

Politico
https://www.politico.com › live-updates › 2024/04/30

7 days ago — Keith Davidson testified about his initial efforts to sell Karen McDougal's story about having a yearlong affair with Donald Trump.

 

Trump is a scumbag. Holy smokes. “Duh, I had nothing to do with it!!” Yeah, Cohen and Wiessellberg went rogue and did it themselves.

 

"Those people" lol

'Trump blasts sexual misconduct claims: ‘I don’t know those people’'
PUBLISHED WED, OCT 19 20169:55 PM EDTUPDATED WED, OCT 19 201610:24 PM EDT

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/19/trump-blasts-sexual-misconduct-claims-i-dont-know-those-people.html

 

Genius son Eric just admitted what he calls "this garbage" did happen 20 yrs ago.
But,,,looks like another Habbahabbahabba ****-up and she is sitting in court with him.






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Perspective: Sitting front row attempting to figure out how any of this garbage from 20 years ago relates to “legal” bills submitted by a long time personal attorney being booked as a “legal” expense — but I digress. To be clear, they don’t give a s**t about the merits of this case - the 15 Manhattan prosecutors are sitting at their table and behind in the courthouse pews, giddy by this salacious show. This is the intent, not the merits, nor the fact that this entire case is a massive extortion play.
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It sounds like Earache Trump is as big a moron as his missing brother, Dumb, Jr.

 

One way of trying not to cross examine a prosecutors witness.


1 min ago
Trump attorney: "We move for a mistrial based on the testimony of this witness"


"We move for a mistrial based on the testimony of this witness," said Trump attorney Todd Blanche says.



2 min ago
Judge is back on the bench
Judge Juan Merchan is back on the bench.

3 min ago
Trump back in courtroom
Donald Trump walked down the center aisle of the courtroom.

His eyes lingered at court sketches as he walked past them.



8 min ago
Prosecutors are back in the courtroom
Prosecutors have entered the courtroom following today's lunch break. Testimony is expected to resume soon.



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Jury and Stormy are not in the court room.

 

We move for a mistrial based on the testimony of this witness," said Trump attorney Todd Blanche says following this morning's testimony from Stormy Daniels. He says the court set "guardrails" and her testimony went over them.5 mins ago

Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump's hush money trial - CNN

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Blanche has issues with Stormy talking about the "imbalance of power" and the jury hearing that.
She was referring to his size/height.

 

2 min ago
Trump attorney argues for new trial, saying Daniels' testimony should be excluded or limited


Trump attorney Todd Blanche is saying "we believe, regrettably, that there should be a mistrial," and that Stormy Daniels' testimony in any new trial should be excluded or limited.



2 min ago
Prosecution argues Daniels' testimony is "highly probative" of Trump's intent for payment
Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger said Stormy Daniels' testimony is "highly probative of defendant’s intent" and Trump's "motive for paying this off."

"This is not new. This is not a new account," Hoffinger said.



3 min ago
"How can you unring the bell?" Blanche alleges Daniels is telling a different story
Toddy Blanche says Stormy Daniels is telling a different story.

"She talked about a consensual encounter with President Trump that she was trying to sell. ... and that's not the story she told today," the attorney says.

He says that the judge was aware there would be an issue establishing "guardrails" for the testimony.

"But now we’ve heard it. And it is an issue. How can you unring the bell?" Blanche says.

3 min ago
Daniels' testimony is "prejudicial," Trump attorney argues
Trump attorney Todd Blanche says Stormy Daniels repeatedly testified about purported meetings with Donald Trump, and "with every single one, she qualified that it was in an open place, a public place."

"What's the jury to do" with that? he asks.

Blanche says there was no other reason for prosecutors to elicit that testimony beyond to cause Trump "embarrassment."

“It’s so prejudicial in a case about a NDA and whether there were false records” at the Trump Organization, Blanche says.



7 min ago
Blanche says there's no way to properly remedy testimony Daniels gave jury in the morning
In his argument for a mistrial, Todd Blanche says the defense attorneys can't think of a way to properly remedy the testimony Stormy Daniels gave to the jury this morning.

"A lot of the testimony this witness talked about today is way different than the story she was peddling in 2016," he says.
Blanche is raising parts of her testimony including that she said she "blacked out," didn't wear a condom when one was required by her employer, the bodyguard outside, their height difference, and the power dynamic.

 

2 min ago
Prosecutor says Daniels' testimony was necessary to show Trump's motive for hush money scheme


Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger says Stormy Daniels' testimony was necessary to show Donald Trump's motive for the hush money scheme and cover-up.

Daniels' salacious story "is precisely what the defendant did not want to become public," she says.

Hoffinger said Trump's team "opened the door" to this by introducing into evidence a text message that referenced the threat Daniels said she received in 2011.

"It was incumbent upon us to bring out those details in the direct" to rehabilitate her testimony after the defense attacked her credibility with previous witness, attorney Keith Davidson.
Hoffinger says the prosecution was "extremely mindful about not eliciting too much detail about the initial act."



4 min ago
Blanche argues that Daniels' testimony "makes it impossible to come back from"
Attorney Todd Blanche is arguing that Stormy Daniels' testimony "makes it impossible to come back from."

"This is the kind of testimony that makes it impossible to come back from — not even talking about the fact that we’re talking about somebody is going to go out and campaign this afternoon," Blanche says.

"This has nothing to do with the reason why we're here, your honor," he adds.

"She testified today about consent, about danger, and that's not the story she was peddling. Sorry, that's not the story she was selling " at the time of the non-disclosure agreement, Blanche says.

Blanche notes that media outlets were already reporting at lunch about Daniels narrative questioning consent.

 

2m ago / 2:15 PM EDT
Judge Merchan denies defense motion for a mistrial


Gary Grumbach and Rebecca Shabad
Merchan has denied the motion for a mistrial that was brought by Trump's defense team.

 

When it becomes evident that the defense can't wash away the acts described by the testimony and evidence, they will go for the "sure, this was all done by everyone else but Trump" defense.
Will the jury see it that way? Time will tell..................

 

Source.

 

Nothing in there about an election.

 

She testified that the money to Stormy was not about influencing the election.

 

Don't watch Fox News. I read everything from all sources.