The woman who had sex with the prospective President in 2016 takes the stand in the criminal case that is ALL about Trump HIDING payment for the sex they had….
Stormy Daniels, the porn star whose hush money payment is at the center of Donald Trump’s criminal case, has been called to the witness stand by prosecutors.
Daniels, a critical witness, is expected to tell jurors how her alleged sexual encounter with Trump in 2006 touched off a plot to buy her silence and, prosecutors say, illegally influence the 2016 presidential election
In the final weeks of the 2016 campaign, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, arranged to pay $130,000 to Daniels so that she wouldn’t go public with her story. Prosecutors have charged Trump with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an alleged effort to conceal reimbursements to Cohen for that payoff.
Prosecutors have accused Trump of directing the payment as part of a conspiracy to violate campaign-finance laws and hide information from voters.
Jurors have already heard from a host of witnesses who played roles in the payment, including Daniels’ former attorney, Keith Davidson, and tabloid executive David Pecker, whose company first introduced Cohen to the prospective hush money deal.
Daniels, whose birth name is Stephanie Clifford, may be asked to describe her account of a sexual encounter with Trump, as well as what she knew about the payment in 2016 as her manager, attorney and Cohen executed the deal.
Earlier today, Trump’s defense team made a last-ditch bid to block Daniels from testifying about the alleged sex act, but the judge ruled that the topic is allowed….
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Trump’s lawyers made a last-minute bid to limit Stormy Daniels’ testimony about sex. It didn’t work.
With Stormy Daniels expected on the stand later today, Trump’s defense team made a last-minute bid to block the porn star from offering up lurid details of her claimed sexual encounter with Trump — an encounter that Trump maintains never happened.
Without getting specific, Trump lawyer Susan Necheles said such details would be “unduly prejudicial” to Trump.
More in the Politico Live Feed Testimony…..
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As in the run of History?
Men and their ‘Johnson’s’
Update….
Donald Trump was WIDE AWAKE this morning with Daniels on the stand…..
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