A porn star’s lurid tale of sex with Donald Trump, the prosecution’s star witness calmly admitting he lied and stole and Trump’s ex-public relations head sobbing on the stand.
A porn star’s lurid tale of sex with Donald Trump, the prosecution’s star witness calmly admitting he lied and stole and Trump’s ex-public relations head sobbing on the stand.
These are probably the most dramatic moments to unfold at the former president’s New York City hush money trial.
The presumptive GOP nominee, 77, has sat glumly at the defense table for the past seven weeks in a drab Manhattan courtroom as his former fixer Michael Cohen, X-rated film actress Stormy Daniels and other witnesses described his alleged plot to bury a sex scandal before the 2016 presidential election.
The jurors convicted Trump on Thursday of all 34 counts related to falsifying business records for covering up the $130,000 payout that bought Daniels’ silence.
Trump maintains he did nothing wrong and that the system is rigged against him.
Here’s a look at five of the most memorable scenes from the historic, surreal trial in Manhattan Supreme Court.Trump mouths ‘bulls–t’ as Stormy Daniels swears under oath that she spanked him
Trump couldn’t contain his anger as Daniels took the stand and divulged racy details about her alleged romp with him at a July 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California.
When the porn star testified that — moments before having sex with him inside his hotel room — she followed through on a dare and “swatted” the former president “right on the butt” with a rolled-up magazine displaying his own face, Trump appeared to mouth the word “bulls—t.”
The irate presidential candidate then received a talking-to about his behavior from his lawyers, after Justice Juan Merchan called them to the bench to warn that Trump could be held in contempt of court if he continued cursing in view of the jury.
“I understand that your client is upset at this point, but he is cursing audibly, and he is shaking his head visually and that’s contemptuous,” the judge said. “It has the potential to intimidate the witness and the jury can see that.”
“You need to speak to him. I won’t tolerate that,” Merchan added during the sidebar.
Trump denies that he ever had an affair with Daniels.Defiant Daniels says if sex with Trump was a porno, she would have ‘written it better’
A defiant Daniels had quite the response when Trump lawyer Susan Necheles tried to attack her credibility by claiming that her porn career writing and starring in “phony stories about sex” should make jurors doubt her testimony about having sex with Trump.
