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The porn actress’ former lawyer Stormy Daniels, Keith Davidsontestified this Tuesday as one of the witnesses called to testify in the criminal trial of the former president donald trump and said he understood that the president was the driving force behind the agreement to silence his client.
The third week of trial began this Tuesday, the first criminal case against a former president in the history of the U.Sand Trump came accompanied by his son Eric Trump and the attorney general Texas, Ken Paxtonwho was sitting in the front row.
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This year’s Republican and presidential candidate is accused of falsifying documents to silence Daniels and thus protect his presidential candidacy.
Davidson was tasked with negotiating a $130,000 payment to keep the adult film actress silent about a 2006 love affair with the mogul.
Although negotiations took place in 2016 with michael cohen – Former lawyer and right-hand man of Trump, who is expected to be one of the main witnesses for the prosecution – Davidson indicated in his testimony today that he understood that the source of the money was Trump or some of the politician’s corporate affiliations.
The lawyer highlighted several times that the entire negotiation with Cohen was very “frustrating”.
Davidson also represented Karen McDougala Playboy model who claimed to have an affair with Trump.
From the booth, Davidson reviewed his text message exchange with the editor of The National Enquirer, Dylan Howardabout the conditions of the possible publication of McDougallos’ story in June 2016.
Last week, the former editor of the American tabloid confirmed in the same court New York his 2016 call with Trump to hide “embarrassing stories” This could involve the Republican politician and harm him in the elections.
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Before the lawyer testified today, representatives from the Public Prosecutor’s Office showed the jury videos from 2016 in which Trump denied the allegations of these extramarital affairs, calling them “horrible” it’s from “total fiction”.
To this day, Trump continues to maintain that he had no relationships with these women.
Another witness who testified this Tuesday for more than two hours was Gary Farrothe banker who began testifying last Friday.
In the two hours he was in the dock today, Farro recounted Cohen’s efforts to open a financial account that was used to pay the porn actress. Stormy Daniels.
Trump with his eyes closed and $9,000 less
During Tuesday’s long statements, 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 elections was fined by the judge Juan M. Merchan with $9,000 for contempt under a ‘gag order’ that prohibits him from publicly attacking witnesses, prosecutors and jurors.
Trump, furthermore, had to delete the seven “offensive posts” by Truth Social and the two “offensive posts” From his campaign website before 2:15 pm local time (6:15 pm GMT) this Tuesday, which he did.
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But that doesn’t mean that Trump stopped showing his displeasure with the case, which he described more than once as a “Witch hunt”, because at the same time he said on his social network that Merchan had taken his “constitutional right to freedom of expression”.
“I am the only presidential candidate in history to be gagged,” he noted in his message.
It wasn’t all bad news for Trump, as Merchan gave him permission to attend his youngest son’s graduation, Baron Trumpon May 17th, the day on which there will be no trial.
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