And tonight to trump legal strategies and the evidence that one is working and the other might be working. Again. Its the former president of the United States. The first deny, deny, deny in minutes, the eightyear history of the many, many times that trump has repeated his denials about Stormy Daniels and insisted a picture is all there is to the story. Now the adult film star, as you can imagine, telling a very different version of events, the jury under oh, today and sayyed 100 center street. Now, daniels left out the way the most salacious details, but not much else. She chronicled how that night and lake tahoe in 2006 escalated from chatter to a Dinner Invitations that is hotel suite to silk Pajamas Deposing and his boxers on the bed to sex. Trump. Listen, they scowl extra across his face from much of the nilly five hours that shes spent on that Witness Stand. Trump nudge. Did i say nudge lightly . Nudge his laura is as repeatedly to object as prosecutors prompted daniels to explai
Afternoon, managing and points to raise questions about her credibility, which in the end it will be up to the jury to decide theres going to be more Cross Examination On Thursday at one point, judge, merchan also ordered Defense Attorney todd blanche to speak to his client, donald trump, who he said was Audibly Cursing at points during Stormy Daniels testimony behavior, the judge called contemptuous as for daniel, shell be back on the stand when the trial resumes thursday back with the panel right now, jonny, seen in legal Alice Elie Honig Normalising who served as special counsel, the House Democrats der, the first trump impeachment and is the author of trying trump, a guide to his first election interference criminal trial. So youve been writing courtroom diaries. Norm, what stood out to you . Today . Were the biggest takeaways from her testimony Stormy Daniels is not a critical witness to the prosecution unlike Michael Cohen, whos coming up, shes principally a corroboration witness
Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper what were going to start today with our Law And Justice lead a stern warning for donald trump today from the bench. Keep violating your gag order and your Hush Money Cover of case, and you may well end up in jail. Judge juan merchan, Finding Today The Trump via lord, violated that gag order for the 10th time. He find a trump 1,000 which is the maximum penalty. But judge, where shine went on to tell the former president , quote, at the end of the de, i have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanctioned and ive done everything i can to avoid doing so i want you to understand that i will if necessary, and appropriate, unquote. Today weve also heard testimony from two witnesses who went through check by check, the payments made by donald trump to his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Those payments are at the very heart of this case because