Stormy Daniels Testifies at Donald Trump’s Hush-Money Trial

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Taking the witness stand in New York, she offers a detailed account of their alleged tryst in 2006, but did prosecutors go too far in eliciting salacious details that are irrelevant to this case about business bookkeeping? Plus, Trump is found in contempt again for breaking the court's gag order, as Judge Juan Merchan insists he does not want to order jail time but will do so if needed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:26.1	A sordid scene at the New York courthouse as Stormy Daniels testifies in detail
0:31.6	about her alleged liaison with Donald Trump in 2006, after which Judge
0:36.5	Juan Mershawn denies a mistrial.
0:39.3	Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:42.4	We are joined today by my colleague Kim Strassal.
0:46.0	By all accounts it was a heated day Tuesday in the Manhattan courtroom for Donald
0:50.6	Trump's hush money trial, prosecution calling Stormy Daniels to the witness stand,
0:56.0	and what followed was almost a play-by-play account of what she said happened in Donald Trump's hotel
1:02.0	room almost 20 years ago.
1:04.2	We are still waiting on a official transcript
1:07.6	from the New York courts that will provide
1:09.9	the exact detail of what was said,
1:12.2	but quotes dribbling out from reporters in the room,
1:15.1	Stormy saying that at one point she says she thinks she sort of blacked out.
1:19.5	There was an imbalance of power for sure. He was bigger in blocking the way. I was not threatened verbally or physically unquote.
1:27.6	After this testimony, the defense moving for a mistrial on the grounds that this was prejudicial and would bias the jury against
1:35.9	Donald Trump.
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