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Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has resumed at Manhattan Criminal Court following Wednesday’s recess, with the porn star Stormy Daniels back on the witness stand facing more cross-examination from the defendant’s lawyers.
Ms Daniels sparred with Trump attorney Susan Necheles over alleged inconsistencies in her various tellings of her sexual encounter with Mr Trump in 2006 as well as her career as an adult entertainer, but remained calm and firm in her testimony.
Earlier in cross-examination, she was confronted about whether she “hates” Mr Trump and wants to see him in jail – to which she replied she wants to see him held accountable for his actions.
On Tuesday the defence moved for a mistrial citing Ms Daniels’ “prejudicial” evidence, which was denied by Judge Juan Merchan. Prosecution attorney Susan Hoffinger is now questioning her on redirect examination.
Elsewhere, Mr Trump spent his day off from court hosting an event at Mar-a-Lago for people who bought his superhero NFTs, rather than hitting the campaign trail.
Alex Woodward is covering Mr Trump’s trial in Manhattan and will be providing regular updates on proceedings.
Redirect examination begins
Assistant District Attorney Susan Hoffinger is up for the prosecution for redirect examination of Stormy Daniels.
Hoffinger notes that Daniels’ prior testimony about “hiding in plain view”.
“This was a friend, who was trying to give me advice … His friends in the military use the term ‘get high, stay high.’ Something won’t happen to you because everyone is looking at you.”
But you were also happy to take the money?
“We’re all happy to take the money. It was just a bonus.”
Hoffinger brings up this text conversation again, from 16 June 2018, between National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard and her agent Gina Rodriguez:
Dylan Howard’s texts from June 2016:
Rodriguez: I have her
Howard: Is she ready to talk?
Howard: I though [sic] she denounced it previously
Rodriguez: She said she will do it under 2 conditions
And we see another text in that exchange, which wasn’t shown previously when the defense introduced the exchange:
Rodriguez: She never did
Necheles turns to the $130,000 payment, stressing that Daniels has not spoken with Trump since 2007, has “no personal knowledge about his involvement in that transaction” and that she didn’t negotiate with him.
Necheles asks Daniels if she is aware that Trump is charged for the way his reimbursement payments to Cohen were labelled. Daniels says she is here to testify about things that she has knowledge of. Nechels says she celebrated his indictment. “There are a lot of indictments,” Daniels says.
You know nothing about the business records?
“Why would I?”
Isn’t it a fact that the reason you changed your story so many times is that you never had an affair, and you’ve been making money off that story for 12 years?
Objection, sustained.
No further questions from the defense.
Lawyers are speaking with the judge before we move to redirect.
We see two Instagram posts from her account promoting her 2018 tour. The posters she shared include “Make America Horny Again” and “Making America Horny Again Tour”.
She said she didn’t make the posts or have anything to do with them other than sharing them to promote the tour. She said she fired someone over them.
Court resumes after break
Stormy Daniels is back on the witness stand and the jury is brought back in.
Questioning returns to the “Make America Horny Again” tour in which Daniels performed in 2018.
Alex Woodward is reporting for The Independent from the courthouse in Lower Manhattan.
Trump gives usual fist pump as he leaves court for break
Trump’s fraud trial judge faces probe
Kelly Rissman reports:
The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial is now under investigation after a hotshot New York real estate attorney claimed he gave him unsolicited advice ahead of the hotly-anticipated multi-million-dollar ruling, according to a report.
Attorney Adam Leitman Bailey told NBC New York that he spoke to Judge Arthur Engoron three weeks before he made his final judgment in the former president’s case, where he found Mr Trump, his two oldest sons, as well as their Trump Organization associates and properties liable for $464m for falsely inflating his assets.
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Daniels is calm, leaning slightly to her right throughout. Annoyed but firm, not moved by Necheles’ attempts to undermine her entire story and livelihood.
The court breaks for a mid-morning recess.
Daniels routinely glares back at Necheles after she answers a question, briefly shaking her head in disbelief.
When Necheles gets stuck, she asks whether her story has changed or if she’s making it up.
“Your story has completely changed, hasn’t it?” she asks.
“No! Not at all,” Daniels says. “You’re trying to make me change but it hasn’t changed.”
Necheles’ line of questioning of Daniels boils down to a whole series of exchanges about whether dinner involves food, if Trump stood up when he said something, and that she shouldn’t be surprised by a potentially nonconsensual sexual encounter because of her career in adult entertainment.
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