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Former US President Donald Trump answers a reporter's question as he returns to the courtroom after a break in his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York.
Daniels described meeting Trump at the golf event and accepting his dinner invitation after her publicist said, “What could possibly go wrong?” When she later emerged from the bathroom, Daniels found Trump partially undressed, she said. The sex was consensual, she said, but there was a power “imbalance.”Merchan has already held the former president in contempt 10 times, fined him $10,000 and twice threatened to send him to jail. On Tuesday, Trump again drew the judge’s ire after Merchan said he had been “cursing audibly” and “shaking his head.
Defence lawyers, capitalising on what they seem to perceive as Daniels’s shortcomings as a witness, came out blazing. One of them, Susan Necheles, implied in her cross-examination that Daniels was trying to “extort money” from Trump.Before court even started Tuesday morning, Trump telegraphed his frustration with Daniels in an angry post on Truth Social, saying he had just learned about a coming witness and that his lawyers had “no time” to prepare.
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