Donald Trump faces more contempt fines for violating the gag order in his hush money trial when he returns to court on Thursday.
Prosecutors are seeking a $1,000 fines each for four comments from the ex-president that attacked witnesses, jurors and others closely connected to the case.
The 77-year-old will also listen to more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer who represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
He is one of multiple key players expected to be called to the stand in advance of prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.
Follow DailyMail.com’s live coverage from our reporters in the courtroom.
Donald Trump speaks to reporters before entering courtroom
Donald Trump addressed the cameras before heading back into court.
Donald Trump walks into court with aides Margo Martin and Natalie Harp
Trump walked into the courtroom at a brisk pace wearing a navy suit as he braced for more contempt of court fines.
He sat at the defense table between his two lawyers, Emil Bove and Todd Blanche.
Trump stared ahead as photographers and videographers were briefly allowed in to take his picture.
His aides Margo Martin and Natalie Harp joined his support group for Day 10 of the trial.
It’s trial time! Trump departs for Manhattan courthouse to kick off day of drama in his hush money case
Top aide Margo Martin posted a video of the former president’s motorcade heading back into NYC at 9:17 p.m. ET Wednesday.
The trial is off every Wednesday due to a scheduling conflict that Judge Merchan has.
It starts with a one-line instant message from a lawyer to an editor: ‘I have a blockbuster Trump story.’
What follows is a blow-by-blow account of how a Playboy model sold her tale to the National Enquirer, casting a spotlight not just on chequebook journalism and supermarket tabloids but the case against Donald Trump as it unfolds in a cold, gloomy New York courtroom.
The details are laid out in a document presented at Trump’s hush money trial last week, entitled People’s Exhibit 176A.
It merited only a fleeting mention as ‘tabloid king’ David Pecker, the then publisher of the National Enquirer, explained how he agreed to help the Trump campaign in 2015 by buying up negative stories about the then candidate.
It was back before the jury on Tuesday when Karen McDougal’s Hollywood lawyer appeared as a witness, describing how he negotiated a payday with National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard.
Recap from Tuesday: The fake names Keith Davidson used for Stormy Daniels and Trump as they hashed out the hush money deal
Keith Davidson detailed the convoluted plot that led to Stormy Daniels’ hush money deal eventually being paid for by Michael Cohen.
He told the court that National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard and Gina Rodriguez, Daniels’ PR, negotiated a deal for $120,000.
But then Howard backed out and refused to close.
The jury heard that Howard asked Rodriguez to call Cohen to get him to pay, but she refused to speak to him.
Davidson told the jury that Rodriguez then asked him to call Cohen and close the deal.
According to Davidson, Rodriguez told him: ‘It’s going to be the easiest deal you’ve ever done in your entire life. All you need to do is pay for it and talk to that a**hole Cohen’.
The deal had initially been for $120,000.
But after Davidson got involved, he asked for another $10,000 to pay for his time.
Davidson said that he used fake names for the deal, or what he called ‘code words’ which were to ensure ‘further confidentiality in case the contract was lost or stolen’
Daniels was referred to as ‘Peggy Peterson’ while Trump was ‘David De
nnison’.
Trump warns of a ‘radical left revolution’ as violence unfolds at UCLA
Donald Trump woke up on Thursday fired up after back-to-back rallies in Wisconsin and Michigan.
The former president prepared for Day 10 of his hush money trial by warning there is ‘radical left revolution’ taking place in the U.S. over the violence at UCLA.
The 77-year-old also railed against the ‘unconstitutional gag order’ as he braced for as much as a $4,000 contempt of court fine for violation of the gag order.
He wrote: ‘THIS IS A RADICAL LEFT REVOLUTION TAKING PLACE IN OUR COUNTRY. WHERE IS CROOKED JOE BIDEN? WHERE IS GOVERNOR NEWSCUM? THE DANGER TO OUR COUNTRY IS FROM THE LEFT, NOT FROM THE RIGHT!!!’
‘WE CANNOT LET THIS RADICAL LEFT, CORRUPT AND HIGHLY CONFLICTED NEW YORK DEMOCRAT JUDGE INTERFERE WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2024 — THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY. THE USA IS TRULY A NATION IN DECLINE! REMOVE THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GAG ORDER.’
Donald Trump has revealed what he will do in November if he loses the 2024 presidential election and concerns about the election’s integrity linger.
His comments came after a rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The midwestern state will be key to the presidential election and will be home to the 2024 Republican National Convention where Trump is expected to be formally nominated as the party’s nominee to take on Democrat Joe Biden.
Donald Trump threatened to put a celebrity publicist out of business if she helped Stormy Daniels sell her story in 2012, according to messages entered into court evidence this week.
The bombshell claims come in instant messages between Gina Rodriguez and National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard.
At the time of their exchange, interest in Trump had reached fever pitch.
He was the clear frontrunner for the 2016 Republican nomination and Howard’s then boss last week explained how he had agreed to hunt out negative stories in what prosecutors claim was a ‘catch and kill’ agreement to help his campaign.
‘I also had Donald Trump call my office 4 years ago when Stormy Daniels was going to do the Trump mistress story,’ Rodriguez wrote in April 2016.
‘He threatened that I would never do business again in entertainment.’
Former President Donald Trump blasted the criminal and civil cases against him and railed against the presiding judges and President Biden at an energized rally in Michigan as he took a day off from court.
The ex-president’s travel to Wisconsin and Michigan on Wednesday were the first campaign rallies Trump has held since the hush money trial against him began in New York nearly three weeks ago.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records for covering up hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Over the past two weeks, multiple witnesses have taken the stand to give salacious details of his alleged affairs and efforts to hide them before the 2016 election.
It is the first of four criminal case against Trump to go to trial.
‘Every one of these fake cases is bulls**t,’ the ex-president said to a boisterous crowd outside an airplane hanger. ‘Every single one of them.’
Welcome to DailyMail.com’s coverage of Day 10 of Donald Trump’s hush money trial
Donald Trump faces more contempt fines for violating the gag order in his hush money trial when he returns to court on Thursday.
Prosecutors are seeking a $1,000 fine each for four comments from the ex-president that attacked witnesses, jurors and others closely connected to the case
The 77-year-old will also listen to more testimony from Keith Davidson, the lawyer who represented both Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.
He is one of multiple key players expected to be called to the stand in advance of prosecutors’ star witness, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer.
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