Prosecutors on Tuesday questioned the former attorney for porn star Stormy Daniels, whose hush money payment is at the center of the New York criminal trial of Donald Trump.
The attorney, Keith Davidson, took the stand after an explosive morning in the historic trial, when Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan held the former president in contempt of court for repeatedly violating his gag order.
Trump did so nine times in online posts targeting jurors and likely witnesses in the trial, Merchan ruled.
He found that prosecutors failed to show that Trump violated the gag order in one other post they had flagged.
The judge read the order aloud before the trial resumed with more testimony from a banker who worked with the former president's lawyer on a $130,000 hush money payment in late 2016 to Daniels, who says she had sex with Trump years earlier.
Davidson is set to continue testifying when the trial resumes Thursday morning at 10 a.m. Michael Cohen, the former Trump attorney who paid Daniels, applauded the gag order ruling Tuesday morning.
In a hearing last week on the gag order violations, prosecutors told Merchan that Trump "knows what he's not allowed to do and he does it anyway." »