Live updates: Ex-publisher details ‘catch and kill’ at Trump’s hush money trial

There was an awkward moment in testimony when a witness was repeatedly interrupted by prosecutors just as he was about to say a word the judge in the case doesn’t want the jury to hear: polygraph. Previously, New York Justice Juan Merchan ruled that the jury would not be told about how some individuals mentioned in the case performed on their polygraph examinations — colloquially known as lie detector tests. Polygraph results are not generally considered admissible in court.

David Pecker, the first witness in the trial, was testifying about how his former company, which published the National Enquirer tabloid, acted as the “eyes and ears” for the Trump campaign in 2015 and 2016 to sniff out potentially scandalous stories about Donald Trump. When a doorman was trying to sell a story that Trump had an illegitimate child with a maid at Trump Tower, the gossip sheet arranged for the doorman to take a polygraph.

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