Daniels Testifies About Payment at Center of Trump Case
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:18.6 | This is CNN breaking news. And welcome the lead. I'm Jake Tapper. It has been the most compelling day so far in Donald Trump's criminal hush money cover-up trial because for the very first time today we heard testimony from Stormy Daniels |
| 0:34.3 | whose alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump is at the very heart of this case. |
| 0:38.6 | Remember the rendezvous itself was not a crime, not in Nevada, nor would be any alleged hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels. |
| 0:48.0 | The crime, according to the New York District Attorney, is the falsifying of business records that were used to conceal the payment |
| 0:55.0 | to keep Stormy Daniels from telling her story publicly in the days leading up to the 2016 election. |
| 1:01.0 | But today Stormy Daniels told her story under oath, explaining how she |
| 1:05.0 | met Trump at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, then got a dinner invite where |
| 1:09.7 | the meeting location turned out to be Trump's hotel room. |
| 1:12.8 | This be Trump allegedly greeted her at the door in sat in pyjamas |
| 1:15.9 | and to spare you the details that she revealed in court. |
| 1:20.0 | We'll just say one thing led to another. |
| 1:21.9 | Another being the alleged sexual encounter. |
| 1:23.8 | But the defense took major issue |
| 1:26.6 | with much of the explicit content |
| 1:29.4 | and moved for a mistrial, saying that all those details that she had been told that the prosecution |
| 1:36.3 | and Stormy Daniels have been cautioned not to tell had nothing to do with the case itself. And the defense attorney said that her testimony |
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