What you missed on Day 8 of Trump's trial: New witnesses and contact info for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
by NBC News
NBC News— Two new witnesses took the stand Friday after four days of testimony from former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial. Trump's longtime assistant, Rhona Graff, told the court that his contact list included information for Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, who have both claimed they had affairs with the former president in 2006. Trump has denied their claims. Graff's testimony was followed by Gary Farro, a bank executive who said he helped...
NBC News—What you missed on Day 13 of Trump’s hush money trial: Stormy Daniels takes the stand. Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had an affair with Donald Trump, took the witness stand in the former president’s criminal trial Tuesday, providing sometimes graphic testimony about a 2006 tryst she says they had in a hotel suite and the efforts to buy her silence in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election. The vivid testimony added another jolt of tabloid sensationalism to proceedings that just a day earlier focused on comparatively mundane topics, such as corporate...
The Washington Times—Tabloid exec David Pecker dishes in Trump trial about Karen McDougal, Stormy Daniels payoffs. Former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial waded into sensitive territory Thursday as a former tabloid executive described how he paid $150,000 to silence a Playboy model who alleged an affair with Mr. Trump but refused to pay off adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, who also shopped around a salacious story in 2016.
NBC News—What you missed on Day 9 of Trump's trial: Gag order jail threat and testimony from Stormy Daniels' former lawyer. The most consequential moment of Tuesday’s trial proceedings happened just minutes after court began, when the judge held Donald Trump in criminal contempt over his social media posts and warned the former president that future violations could land him in jail. Hours after New York state Judge Juan Merchan said he had violated the order's prohibition against attacks on witnesses and jurors, Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, took to his Truth Social platform to call the...