Former US president Donald Trump's chances of winning the election have increased by 4 per cent since the start of the hearing.
Joan Walsh The trial isn’t about Trump’s bad behavior but committing business crimes to win an election. It’s a shame that Daniels’s story is being ruled largely irrelevant in the courtroom.
Courtroom sketches of adult-film star Stormy Daniels testifying during the hush-money criminal trial of former President Donald Trump are inspiring social media mockery from conservatives.Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal payments to Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal during his 2016 presidential campaign. Both women claim that they had affairs with Trump, which the former president denies.Daniels has faced heavy backlash from...
A cartoon by Jeff Danziger. Campaign Action
I notice a tiny, almost infinitesimal, difference in the treatment of women who accuse Republican presidents of sexual misconduct compared to women who accuse Democrats. See if you can spot the difference. Stormy Daniels is the stripper and porn star who tried to extort Donald Trump when he was running for president in 2016, threatening […]
Stormy Daniels’ husband Barrett Blade joins CNN’s Erin Burnett and shares his perspectives on former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial in which his wife is a key witness.
The cross-examination this week of Stormy Daniels at the New York criminal trial of Donald Trump has been called “aggressive,” and “heated.” Which it was. But that’s what cross-examination is. Cross-examination doesn’t always have to be aggressive and heated. But sometimes it is. And sometimes it needs to be. The Supreme Court has long said that the constitutional right of confrontation is a “bedrock procedural guarantee” governing how witnesses give testimony in criminal trials: “It commands,...
A vivid account of sex with the former president tells jurors exactly what he would not want to become public, Alex Woodward reports from the courthouse in Manhattan
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. Donald Trump’s legal team made a new motion for a mistrial in the former U.S. president’s criminal hush money case. Todd Blanche telling Judge Merchan that this trial is not about “sex” and yet the testimony of Stormy Daniels provided jurors with prejudicial details, from spanking to not using a condom. Judge Merchan denied the motion […]
The BBC's Nada Tawfik goes through the cross-examination that the former adult-film star faced in court.
Experts say the star witness's answers were sometimes useful - and other times completely irrelevant.
It was the moment Donald Trump was dreading. The former president could only sit and watch as the adult film actor Stormy Daniels told her version of events from an alleged sexual encounter they had in 2006. Prosecutors say that Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen shuttled a $130,000 hush-money payment to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 presidential election, to keep her from talking to anyone about her alleged encounter with Trump.So how bad was Daniels’ testimony for the...