Live Thread: Trump's hush money trial begins in NYC

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'Penny pinching? You bet. I'm all for it,' Trump wrote in book excerpt shown to jury
By Ben Kochman

Trump defended the practice of "penny pinching" in another book excerpt shown just now to jurors.

“Penny pinching? You bet. I'm all for it,” Trump wrote in "Trump: Think like a Billionaire," published in 2004.

Trump also noted that he once proudly cashed a check for just $.50 as part of a "test" by Spy Magazine to find the "world's cheapest billionaire."

“They may call that cheap, I call it watching the bottom line,” he bragged in the book.

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24 min(s) ago
Trump attorneys object to prosecution plan to reveal 'full details' of sex act with Stormy Daniels

 Attorneys for Former President Trump objected to prosecutors' plans to go through the "full details" of the alleged sex act between pornography actress Stormy Daniels and Trump during the New York criminal trial.

Trump's team argued there is no need for the details, and they further argue that there is an issue with her credibility since Daniels has signed papers saying the sex act didn't happen.

Prosecutors clarified that they would "not go into details of genitalia."

Judge Juan Merchan sided with prosecutors, saying they could ask Daniels for the details they outlined.

Daniels is expected to take the stand this week, and could do so as early as Tuesday. Trump is alleged to have given her a $130,000 hush money payment through former lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of the 2016 election.
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Publishing executive finishes testifying

Penguin Random House’s Sally Franklin is off the stand after testifying about books that Donald Trump published with the publishing firm.

Attorneys are having a sidebar.

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Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in the unprecedented criminal trial of former President Donald Trump in the case, N.Y. v. Trump.

Trump is alleged to have given Daniels a $130,000 payment through his former lawyer Michael Cohen ahead of the 2016 election to quiet her story of an alleged affair with Trump in the early 2000s. Trump has denied the affair.

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump's defense attorneys objected to prosecutors' plans to go through the "full details" of the alleged sex act between Daniels and Trump during the New York criminal trial.

Trump's team argued there is no need for the details, and they further argue that there is an issue with her credibility since Daniels has signed papers saying the sex act didn't happen. Prosecutors clarified that they would "not go into details of genitalia."

Judge Juan Merchan sided with prosecutors, saying they could ask Daniels for the details they outlined.

Fox News Digital's Anders Hagstrom contributed to this update.
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Stormy Daniels takes the stand

Wearing all black, Stormy Daniels just took the witness stand.

Like all other witnesses at the trial, she walked into the room through a side door, and behind the defense table.

Trump looked forward, then turned his head to the right as Daniels walked by.

Daniels did not appear to make eye contact with Trump as she took her seat.

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Jurors smile as Daniels describes how she got into 'exotic dancing' at age of 21

A couple of the jurors flashed smiles from jurors as Stormy Daniels describes how she first got into stripping, before later starting a career as a porn.

When she was 21 years old, a friend invited her to watch her dance.

Daniels thought the friend meant ballet dance, or tap.

"I was wrong; she was an exotic dancer," Daniels said.

At least two jurors flashed a smile at that remark.

2 minutes ago
Stormy Daniels says she first started working in adult film industry at 23
By Kyle Schnitzer

Daniels testified that she first started working in the adult film industry at 23.

7 minutes ago
Attorney passes Trump note during Stormy Daniels' testimony

Todd Blanche, an attorney for Donald Trump, passed a note to the former president while Stormy Daniels testified about her educational background.

Trump viewed the note under the table and then quickly placed the note in the breast pocket of his blue blazer.

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Daniels talks about roles in movies like 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Superbad'
By Kyle Schnitzer

Stormy Daniels said she did some work for Hollywood in movies like "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Knocked Up."

Daniels testified that she appeared in Steve Carrell's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," where she played the role of "porn star," according to IMDB.

Additionally, Daniels said she appeared in comedies like "Knocked Up" and "Superbad," while once appearing in a music video for the band Maroon 5.

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Trump called Daniels 'the smart one' because she was a porn director as well as actor: testimony
By Ben Kochman

Donald Trump met Stormy Daniels at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006 — where he told her she was "the smart one" because she both directed and acted in porn, she testified.

"He said, 'You direct, too. You must be the smart one,'" Daniels told jurors.

Trump repeated the same comment later in the course's "gift room" — and jurors saw the infamous photo of them posing together, with Trump wearing a yellow polo shirt and red cap.

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Daniels points out Trump in courtroom after asked to ID him by prosecutors

Stormy Daniels just identified Donald Trump in the courtroom after prosecutors asked her if she saw him today.

"Do you see Mr. Trump in the courtroom today," Manhattan prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked.

Daniels then moved chaotically around on the witness stand in an effort to see Trump around a monitor, before pointing in Trump's direction.

"Navy blue jacket, second at the table," Daniels said.

Trump did not appear to respond when identified.

5 minutes ago
Daniels makes sex joke about 'holes' in courtroom: 'Very funny'
By Kyle Schnitzer

Stormy Daniels is testifying about a Lake Tahoe golf tournament at Lake Tahoe where she met Donald Trump in 2006, cracking a joke about golf "holes" that were sponsored by her adult film company, Wicked.

“Wicked sponsored one of the holes on the golf course," Daniels testified. "I know that is very funny when you’re an adult film star sponsoring one of the holes."

The joke drew a chorus of laughs from the overflow room.

Daniels testified was 27 at the time when she met Trump.

"I didn't know his age but I knew he was probably around the age or older than my father," she said.

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Jack Poso
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BREAKING: Prosecutors have just requested Stormy Daniels slow down in the courtroom


10:48 AM · May 7, 2024

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Jack Poso
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BREAKING: Stormy Daniels asked if it was going to be a hung jury

10:58 AM · May 7, 2024

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🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸
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Here is my response to any judge who attempts to place an unconstitutional gag order on me:

bleep you.

Jail me.

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Daniels teased Trump for welcoming her touxe hotel suite wearing 'Hugh Hefner' style pajamas
By Ben Kochman

Donald Trump welcomed Daniels to his luxurious hotel suite wearing Hugh Hefner-style "silk or satin" pajamas, Daniels told jurors.

Daniels says she immediately made fun of Trump about this.

"Does Mr. Hefner know you stole his pajamas?" she recalled telling him. It was a reference to Hefner's typical pajamas look during his reign as the publisher of Playboy Magazine.

"I told him to change, and he obliged, very politely," Daniels added.

Trump then came back into the room wearing a button down shirt and pants, she said.

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Will she testify that Trump gave her a gag order?

8:32 AM · May 7, 2024

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Today is proving that the decline of civilization is near complete.

This stench is driving voters to Trump in droves.

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Daniels says porn is more than 'Oh, sorry Mr. Pizza Boy' scenes: testimony
By Kyle Schnitzer

Stormy Daniels testified that Donald Trump asked her about her porn star career when she met him — and defended the industry about being more than "Oh, sorry Mr. Pizza Boy" scenes.

Daniels said when she met Trump they exchanged pleasantries and he asked her about porn star career.

She said Trump asked her "how I went from a porn star to writing and directing."

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Today is proving that the decline of civilization is near complete.

This stench is driving voters to Trump in droves.

Fox reported earlier that he has lost support from his base...Dana Perino

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"Stormy Daniels is apparently making scripted jokes in the courtroom to win over the jury and nobody is laughing. She's hurting the prosecution's case by showing the jury how much of an attention seeker she is. This is hilarious" (Video)°

https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1787860788541014275

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11 minutes ago
Daniels says publicist urged her to meet Trump: 'Make a great story'
By Kyle Schnitzer

Stormy Daniels testified that her publish urged her to skip a dinner with colleagues to meet Donald Trump because it would "make a great story."

“I was scheduled to go to dinner with everyone from the company that I worked for and I didn’t want to go to," Daniels testified, before admitting that her publicist pushed her to meet Trump because it could be "amazing."

“What better excuse would you have to get out of this dinner than to have dinner with Donald Trump,” Daniels said, recalling the conversation with her publicist.

She then said that she was told it would "make a great story."

Daniels then ended the speech with a funny one liner, "What could possibly go wrong?"

The meeting was set after Daniels met Trump's security guard, Keith Schiller, earlier in the day.

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Fox reported earlier that he has lost support from his base...Dana Perino

Sorry, Dana, he hasn't.   

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2 minutes ago
Who is Stormy Daniels?
By Priscilla DeGregory

Stormy Daniels -- whose real name is Stephanie Clifford -- is an adult film actress who got into the business when she was just 23, she testified Tuesday.

Daniels, 45, -- who has had a long-time career in the porn business -- has also made appearances in popular mainstream films like "40-Year-Old Virgin," "Superbad" and "Knocked up," she told jurors.

She first got into exotic dancing in Louisiana at 21 when a friend invited her to watch her dance, and Stormy, believing she meant ballet dancing or something similar, attended only to discover the pal was an exotic dancer.

Daniels then moved to Los Angeles to make porn films in which she acted, directed and wrote, according to CNN. She was inducted into the Adult video News Hall of Fame in 2014, the outlet reported.

Daniels is a key witness against Donald Trump as she claims the former prez had her paid off with $130,000 to keep her from going public in the run-up to the 2016 election about her claims she had a one-night stand with a married Trump in 2006.

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Stormy Daniels says they did bring up Donald Trump’s wife Melania

Stormy Daniels recalls during their conversation at dinner that Melania Trump was brought up.

‘Yeah very brief,’ Stormy Daniels remembers.

Daniels remembers Trump saying ‘oh don’t worry about that.’

He told her they don’t sleep in the same room, Daniels says.

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