After one day of testimony that was by turns seamy and grim, Stormy Daniels returned to the stand Thursday to be cross-examined by Trump’s lawyers.
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What to know
- Stormy Daniels' testimony Tuesday brought the trial, which had for days featured comparatively dull testimony about accounting and records-keeping procedures, to a crescendo, as the porn star and director gave a detailed account of how she met Donald Trump. She recounted their sexual encounter in a Lake Tahoe hotel room that, as she recalled, featured a degree of coercion.
- She went on to testify to her various attempts to tell her story, and to an incident in a Las Vegas parking lot in 2011 when a man threatened her, demanding she stay silent.
- Trump's lawyers seized on her testimony, and, in particular, argued that the suggestion that she may have been assaulted by Trump was intended to "inflame" the jury and was grounds for a mistrial. Judge Juan Merchan disagreed, but scolded prosecutors for eliciting “things that would probably have been better left unsaid” and Trump's lawyers for not objecting more.
- Read our full day one writeup here.
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After one day of testimony that was by turns seamy and grim, Stormy Daniels returned to the stand Thursday to be cross-examined by Trump’s lawyers.
Follow along with us below.