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| Trump trial live: Pecker says deal to bury Trump stories was 'agreement between friends' - BBC News | Trump trial live: Pecker says deal to bury Trump stories was 'agreement between friends' - BBC News |
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| There were two court hearings for Trump today - with the same judge and in the same courtroom. | |
| The morning started off with a gag-order hearing. Prosecutors claim Donald Trump has violated a gag order 10 times | |
| Justice Merchan and Trump's lawyer Todd Blanche had several tense exchanges during the hearing, with the judge telling Blanche he is "losing all credibility" | |
| The judge has yet to decided if Trump has violated the gag order - that's something we could learn later tonight or tomorrow. If he rules against Trump, he could be fined $10,000 | |
| After the hearing, it was back to the hush-money trial. The first witness, David Pecker, continued his testimony | |
| Pecker has been explaining a "catch-and-kill" scheme he ran while publisher of the tabloid magazine National Enquirer. He says it was an "agreement between friends" to suppress negative stories about Trump during the 2016 election | |
| In one case, a doorman who claimed Trump fathered a love child with a housekeeper, was paid $30,000 to sell his story to the magazine, even though it turned out to be "1,000% untrue", Pecker said - but it kept the potentially damaging story out of the press | |
| The trial will continue on Thursday, as court doesn't sit on Wednesdays. | |
| You can read Madeline Halpert and Kayla Epstein's story on today's proceedings here. | |
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