What Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer said during Trump’s trial in New York

Davidson was in charge of negotiating a payment of $130,000 to keep the film actress silent. for adults regarding an affair with the tycoon in 2006.

Although the negotiations were in 2016 with Michael Cohen – Trump’s former lawyer and right-hand man, who is expected to be one of the prosecution’s star witnesses – Davidson indicated in his testimony this Tuesday that he understood that the source of the money was Trump or some corporate affiliation of the politician.

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The lawyer highlighted on several occasions that the entire negotiation with Cohen was very “frustrating.”

Davidson also represented Karen McDougal, a Playboy model who claimed to have an affair with Trump.

From the stand, Davidson reviewed his text message exchange with The National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard about the terms of the possible publication of McDougallos’ story in June 2016.

Last week, the former editor of the American tabloid confirmed in the same New York court his link with Trump in 2016 to hide “embarrassing stories” that could involve the Republican politician and harm him in the elections.

Before the lawyer took the stand this Tuesday, The prosecution representatives showed the jury videos from 2016 in which Trump denied the accusations of these relationships extramarital affairs by calling them “horrible” and “total fiction.”

To this day, Trump continues to maintain that he had no relationship with these women.

Another witness who took the stand this Tuesday for more than two hours was Gary Farro, the banker who began testifying last Friday.

In the two hours he sat on the stand, Farro recounted Cohen’s efforts to open a financial account that was used to pay porn actress Stormy Daniels.
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During the long statements on Tuesday, Trump closed his eyes and leaned back in his chair several times, something that is already common in this trial.

On this day, The Republican candidate for this year’s presidential election was fined $9,000 by Judge Juan M. Merchan. for contempt of the ‘gag order’ that prohibits him from publicly attacking witnesses, prosecutors and members of the jury.

Trump also had to delete the seven “offensive posts” from Truth Social and the two “offensive posts” from his campaign website before 2:15 p.m. local time on Tuesday, which he did.

But that did not mean that Trump stopped showing his discontent about the case, which he has described more than once as a “witch hunt,” because around that same time he said on his social network that Merchan had taken away his “constitutional right to freedom of expression.”

“I am the only presidential candidate in history who is gagged,” he noted in his message.

It wasn’t all bad news for Trump, as Merchan gave him permission to attend the graduation of his youngest son, Barron Trump, on May 17, the day there will be no trial.