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Trump trial: Judge warns the former president risks jail over gag order violations - BBC News Trump trial: Stormy Daniels in court today, CBS sources say - BBC News
(about 16 hours later)
Phil McCausland Nada Tawfik
Reporting from New York Reporting outside the courtroom
We are ending another day of covering the first criminal trial of a former president - Donald Trump. The defence just unsuccessfully tried to stop Stormy Daniels' testimony about sexual acts. Donald Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche claimed in opening statements that her testimony “while salacious, does not matter”.
It was an eventful one: Trump was threatened with jail time for violating his gag order, and the prosecution introduced key evidence that corresponds with the 34 charges of falsifying business records that the former president faces. Let’s break that down.
Prosecutors estimate that they need about two more weeks to finish making their case, so join us again tomorrow in the BBC's continuing coverage from the courtroom. There’s no getting around the fact that her testimony about their sexual encounter will include details that will be embarrassing for Donald Trump. He, of course, denies it happened - but as this trial has proven, he is preoccupied with how he is portrayed in the media.
This page featured Madeline Halpert, Kayla Epstein and Nada Tawfik reporting from court in New York. The headlines that will write themselves from her testimony will no doubt bother him, as he once again seeks a return to the White House.
It was edited by Jessica Murphy, Lisa Lambert and Phil McCausland. Next, does her testimony matter or not?
In regard to the charges, it doesn’t matter if they had sex, beyond questions of her credibility as a witness. She also has no knowledge of whether the business records were allegedly falsified to cover up the payment to her.
But she is still important for the prosecution’s case and serves as another corroborating witness. She will likely detail how she was prepared to go public before the 2016 election with her story and how the motivation to pay her off in exchange for her silence was in fact the election, and not Melania Trump’s feelings.
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