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NEW YORK -- Witness grounds successful Donald Trump's hush wealth proceedings is acceptable to resume Monday morning, mounting the signifier for an adjacent deeper dive into the events and radical progressive successful what prosecutors person said was a strategy to power the 2016 statesmanlike election by buying and burying antagonistic stories astir the candidate.
The proceedings is successful its 12th day.
Former Trump advisor Hope Hicks took the basal past week, recounting however Trump's run was turned upside-down pursuing the leak of a video wherein helium bragged astir grabbing women without their permission.
Keith Davidson, who represented porn histrion Stormy Daniels and erstwhile Playboy exemplary Karen McDougal successful hush wealth negotiations, besides took the stand. Davidson spent hours detailing his relation successful securing payouts for Daniels and McDougal successful speech for their soundlessness astir erstwhile intersexual encounters they said they had with Trump.
Trump besides faced a 2nd contempt proceeding implicit whether helium had again violated his gag bid implicit 4 much prospective violations. Judge Juan M. Merchan has not yet ruled connected that sanctions request. Trump was fined $9,000 earlier successful the week implicit gag bid violations.
Overall, prosecutors are mounting the signifier for pivotal grounds from Cohen, who paid Daniels $130,000 for her soundlessness earlier helium went to situation for the hush wealth scheme.
Trump is accused of falsifying interior concern records to screen up hush wealth payments — including the outgo to Daniels — signaling them alternatively arsenic ineligible expenses.
Trump has pleaded not blameworthy to 34 felony counts of falsifying concern records.
The lawsuit is the first-ever transgression proceedings of a erstwhile U.S. president and the archetypal of 4 prosecutions of Trump to scope a jury.
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Here's the latest:
Witness grounds successful Donald Trump's transgression proceedings is entering its 3rd week connected Monday and it remains to beryllium seen who volition instrumentality the basal next.
Over the past mates weeks, however, jurors person heard from a big of antithetic people.
Following a weeklong assemblage enactment process that began mid-April, jurors heard archetypal from erstwhile National Enquirer steadfast David Pecker, who among different things explained his pledge to beryllium the “eyes and ears” of Trump's 2016 statesmanlike campaign.
Keith Davidson, a lawyer who represented porn histrion Stormy Daniels and erstwhile Playboy exemplary Karen McDougal successful hush wealth negotiations, besides took the stand. And jurors heard from others specified arsenic a forensic expert who examined Michael Cohen's phones and a paralegal with the Manhattan territory attorney's office.
And Former White House property caput and ex-Trump advisor Hope Hicks painted a vivid representation of the chaos that unfolded aft the “Access Hollywood” portion leaked and the Wall Street Journal ran a communicative astir McDougal's hush wealth deal.
The defence cross-examined Hicks for astir 20 minutes earlier tribunal adjourned aboriginal past Friday.
Although an ensemble of antithetic radical person testified successful Donald Trump's hush wealth lawsuit implicit the past 2 weeks, 1 pivotal witnesser has been often heard but not yet seen: Michael Cohen.
Jurors past week began proceeding Cohen’s words connected audio recordings arsenic prosecutors worked to straight necktie Trump to payments to soundlessness women with damaging claims astir him earlier the 2016 election.
Jurors heard, successful particular, a perchance important portion of evidence: a signaling of Trump and Cohen, past his attorney, discussing a program to wage disconnected an ex-Playboy exemplary who claimed to person an matter with Trump. The erstwhile president denies the affair.
They besides heard a fewer witnesses recount their interactions with Cohen — immoderate pleasant and others acold little so.
It's unclear erstwhile the prosecution's prima witnesser volition instrumentality the stand.
Donald Trump is expected to instrumentality to Manhattan tribunal arsenic his hush wealth proceedings enters its 12th day.
Last week's proceedings saw a frenzy of witnesses instrumentality the stand, including erstwhile Trump advisor Hope Hicks and Keith Davidson, a lawyer who represented porn histrion Stormy Daniels and erstwhile Playboy exemplary Karen McDougal successful hush wealth negotiations with Cohen and the National Enquirer.
The week besides saw Trump fined $9,000 by Judge Juan M. Merchan for violating a gag bid that bars the erstwhile president from speaking publically astir cardinal witnesses, jurors and others successful the case. A 2nd contempt proceeding was heard connected Thursday implicit 4 much prospective violations, but Merchan did not instantly contented a decision.
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