Trump is heading into week three of his hush money trial in New York, and prosecutors have begun calling on a cast of characters from Trump's past as witnesses.
, and prosecutors have begun calling on a cast of characters from Trump’s past as they aim to prove he conspired to falsify business records before and after the 2016 election.District Attorney Alvin Bragg, summoned former tabloid executive David Pecker to the stand for four days of questioning, then they called on longtime Trump aide Rhona Graff and banker Gary Farro., several others are expected to appear as possible witnesses in the coming weeks.
, in October 2016 and said she wanted to come forward with an allegation that she had an affair with Trump. Daniels has embraced her public image since the debacle and released an eponymous documentary this year that centered on her experiences with Trump.Davidson was Daniels’s lawyer and negotiated the payment to Daniels with Cohen, according to Bragg’s statement of facts. Davidson is named only as “Lawyer B” in the document.McDougal, a former playboy model, is the second of the three people Bragg alleged that Trump conspired to pay off.
Farro testified on Friday about his former role as senior managing director at First Republic Bank. Farro was assigned to the bank’s longtime customer Cohen at the time that Cohen obtained a $130,000 loan from the bank to pay Daniels’s lawyer. Questions have swirled about what meetings and calls Hicks was present for during the alleged payment scandals, but federal court documentsin Cohen’s prosecution in 2018 indicated she at least spoke with Trump and Cohen ahead of Cohen paying Daniels’s attorney.Westerhout, the former director of Oval Office operations in Trump’s White House, would have been privy to any meetings Trump took in the renowned room at the start of his presidency, including meetings with Cohen.
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