Stormy Daniels has taken the witness stand in the hush money trial of former United States president Donald Trump
The porn actor was prepared to testify about a sexual encounter she said they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid off to keep silent during the presidential
Daniels' testimony, even if sanitised for a courtroom setting and stripped of tell-all details, is by far the most-awaited spectacle in a trial that has toggled between tabloidesque elements and dry record-keeping details. Cohen paid Daniels after her lawyer at the time, Keith Davidson, indicated she was willing to make on-the-record statements to theeditor Dylan Howard alerted publisher David Pecker and then, at Pecker's direction, told Cohen that Daniels was agitating to go public with her claims, prosecutors said.
The testimony from Jeffrey McConney yielded an important building block for prosecutors trying to pull back the curtain on what they say was a corporate records cover-up of transactions designed to protect Trump's Republican presidential bid during a pivotal stretch of the race. It focused on a $196,000 payment from Cohen to Daniels and the subsequent reimbursement Cohen received.
The US$1000 fine imposed on Monday marks the second time since the trial began last month that Trump has been sanctioned for violating the gag order.
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