On Tuesday, a judge rejected Donald Trump’s request for a mistrial over Stormy Daniels’ sordid testimony, but the judge still noted that the former adult film star is a “difficult” witness for prosecutors to control.
After a lunch break in the trial, Todd Blanche, the former president’s lawyer, told Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan Marchan that Daniels’ testimony about a secret meeting with Trump in 2006 was “prejudicial” to him. , requested that the case be thrown out.
Mr Machan denied the motion, but acknowledged: “There are some things I would have been better off not saying.”
“I think it was very difficult to control the witnesses,” the judge added.
After sentencing, the 77-year-old Trump scribbled something on a legal pad and shoved a notebook onto Branch’s bench.
The lawyer argued that testimony alleging an “imbalance of power” between Daniels and Trump could “infuriate jurors” and that it was a challenge to the work his client faces. He pointed out that this had nothing to do with the suspicion of falsifying records.
Prosecutors met with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, outside the courtroom and tried to keep her “focused” as she resumed testifying Tuesday afternoon.
Jurors struggled to keep a straight face as Daniels, 45, testified in court early Tuesday about how she had rolled up a magazine with Trump’s face on the cover and hit him, at least for some time. The two were grinning.
She also detailed how the presumptive Republican presidential nominee had sex with her in a “missionary position” in a luxury hotel suite during a brief encounter in which he did not wear a condom.
During testimony, Trump’s lawyers repeatedly objected, and Marchand conceded, warning prosecutors that the “level of detail” she was using was “unnecessary.”
