Keith Davidsonwho was the lawyer for porn actress Stormy Daniels, took the stand this Tuesday when one of the witnesses was called to testify in the former president’s criminal trial. Donald Trumpand he said he understood that the president was the force behind the agreement to silence his client.
He is the Republican and a candidate for this year’s presidential elections accused of falsifying documents and obstructing Daniels to protect his presidential career.
Davidson was responsible for negotiating a $130,000 payment to keep the adult film actress quiet about an affair with the mogul in 2006.
Although the conversations took place in 2016 with Michael Cohen – Trump’s former lawyer and right-hand man, who is expected to be one of the prosecution’s key witnesses – Davidson said today that evidence that he understood that the money came from Trump or a corporate connection of the politician.
The lawyer indicated several times that the whole negotiation with Cohen was very “frustrating”.
Davidson also represented Karen MacDougalla Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Trump.
From the stand, Davidson reviewed his text message exchange with an editor at The National EnquirerDylan Howard, on the conditions for publishing the McDougal story in June 2016.
Last week, the former editor of the American tabloid confirmed in the same court in New York his connection with Trump in 2016 to hide “disgraceful stories” that could implicate the Republican politician and harm him in the elections.
Before the lawyer took the stand today, representatives of the prosecution showed the jury videos from 2016 in which Trump rejected the allegations of these extramarital affairs by calling them “horrific” and “total fiction”.
To this day, Trump still maintains that he had no relationship with these women.
It was another witness who stood this Tuesday for more than two hours Gary Farrothe banker who began testifying last Friday.
Farro mentioned in the two hours he sat on the stand today about Cohen’s efforts to open a financial account that was used to pay the porn actress Stormy Daniels.
2024-05-04 22:58:42
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