Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels allowed to testify in Trump hush money trial

A New York judge on Monday denied Donald Trump's bid to keep his former lawyer Michael Cohen and adult film star Stormy Daniels from testifying in the former president's criminal trial related to a 2016 hush money payment.

The audio surfaced after Trump became the Republican nominee in 2016, and the DA's office has argued that the bad publicity spurred the payout to Daniels. Merchan said prosecutors can elicit testimony that the tape 'contained comments of a sexual nature which Defendant feared could hurt his presidential aspirations,' but that 'it is not necessary that the tape itself be introduced into evidence or that it be played for the jury.

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