Trump again denied a mistrial after Stormy Daniel testified in a hush money case

New York, New York – Donald Trump‘s defense team was again denied a mistrial Thursday following porn star Stormy Daniels’ lengthy testimony in the former president’s historic hush-money case.

At the end of Daniels’ marathon testimony, which lasted about eight hours over two days, the defense asked her if she knew anything about Trump’s accounting — the real heart of the case.

She said she doesn’t.

But that wasn’t the point of calling Daniels, a prosecutor later said — she was there to explain why Trump had wanted to cover up her story at the end of his bid for the White House.

Donald Trump
Nikki Haley’s ‘zombie campaign’ comes back to haunt Trump in the Indiana primaries

That reasoning emerged after jurors were dismissed for the day during a motion hearing in which Team Trump again tried to obtain a mistrial.

It was denied again, but not before Judge Juan Merchan put Trump’s lawyers before him.

“I don’t agree with your story that there is a new story here. I don’t agree that there is a changing story,” he said, audibly irritated.

In his extraordinary outrage at the defense’s law practice, Merchan said their very insistence that Daniels fabricated the encounter paved the way for the prosecution to introduce evidence — much of it salacious — proving otherwise.

Necheles spent much of her time hammering home the details they raised as grounds for a mistrial, Merchan said, “drilling it into the jury’s ears over and over again.”

Donald Trump
Trump posts a long rant about the hush money ban: “Give me freedom, or give me death!”

“I don’t understand the reason for that,” he said during his dramatic critique, asking why the defense had not objected to the presentation of those details during direct questioning.

And that Trump’s team attacked Daniels from the very beginning, including during opening statements, “pits your client’s word against Ms. Daniels’ word,” Merchan said.

“That, in my opinion, allows The People to do what they can to rehabilitate her and corroborate her story,” he said, using a term for the accuser.

“Your request for a mistrial has been denied.”