Trump Trial Week 3… Stormy Daniels Takes The Stand
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The former U.S. President Donald Trump’s trial in New York is in its third week, where he’s accused of trying to cover up a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
He’s pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records and also denies having a sexual encounter with Daniels.
Sarah and Anthony are joined by the BBC’s US reporter, Kayla Epstein - who’s been in court every day - to hear what happened when Ms Daniels herself took the stand, and court artist Jane Rosenberg reveals how she creates those incredibly candid sketches from the trial.
HOSTS: * Sarah Smith, North America editor * Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: * Kayla Epstein, BBC’s U.S. reporter covering the trial
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This episode was made by Keiligh Baker. The producer was Rufus Gray. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The series producer is Purvee Pattni. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We have just sat through the most dramatic week in Donald Trump's hush money trial. |
| 0:09.4 | The star witness, Stormy Daniels, the adult film star who says she had sex with him back in 2006, the |
| 0:15.2 | one he paid the hush money to, she was on the stand for a day and a half. |
| 0:20.2 | An adult film star talking about sex in a hotel room. I don't think you can get any more |
| 0:25.4 | salacious and engaging than that. And we're going to dig deep into her testimony and find out |
| 0:31.4 | why it was so dramatic that twice Donald Trump's lawyers |
| 0:34.7 | tried to get a mistrial based on what she was saying. |
| 0:37.7 | I have to say Anthony you know that we don't get any notice of what witnesses are |
| 0:41.6 | coming up when. |
| 0:43.2 | And it was early on Tuesday morning |
| 0:44.9 | that some rumors started going around |
| 0:46.2 | that that was the day that Stormy Daniels |
| 0:47.8 | was going to take the stand. |
| 0:49.0 | I was stuck in a hideous traffic jam |
| 0:51.1 | trying to get in from New York airport. My phone was blowing up with messages |
| 0:55.0 | saying it's going to be stormy, it's stormy today and I was just thinking, oh my God, I just hope I can get to the |
| 0:59.6 | court in time, which I did, but only by the skin of my teeth. |
| 1:02.8 | That was the weather forecast for Tuesday morning in New York City, right? |
| 1:06.3 | Stormy with a chance of testimony. |
| 1:08.6 | Ha ha, nice one. |
| 1:11.5 | So it's time to say, welcome America's in the courtroom it's Trump Trial week three |
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