Trump trial latest: Raging ex-president calls for mistrial over 'difficult to control' witness Stormy Daniels

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Donald Trump and his legal team argue the hush money case against him should be thrown out because of a detailed account given by Stormy Daniels of their alleged affair in court. But the judge ruled the case can continue. Earlier, the prosecution used Trump's own books against him.

Scroll through the blog below to catch up on all the latest from today.Stormy Daniels has been pictured leaving Manhattan criminal court in New York City after testifying for nearly four hours today.Away from the hush money trial, a judge has indefinitely postponed another case in which Donald Trump is charged with with illegally holding on to classified documents after leaving the White House.

When she suggested she wouldn't be taken seriously due to her profession, Trump told her she reminded him of her daughter as"people underestimate her as well". He suggested it would be a way of showing her talents.Stormy Daniels testified that she found Trump sitting on his bed wearing just boxer shorts and a T-shirt as she walked out of the bathroom at the suite.Ms Daniels told the court she ended up having sex with Trump in what she said was a"brief" encounter.

She says she had sought to get out of her NDA agreement with Trump in order to"stand up for herself".Defence lawyer Susan Necheles began her questioning of Ms Daniels by asking if it was true that she hated Trump - which the witness agreed with.Ms Daniels was pressed on the fact that she owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump in legal fees following a failed defamation lawsuit in 2018.

Asked why she had decided to sell her story after saying a man had approached her in a car park in 2011 and threatened her to keep quiet, Ms Daniels said she was a"different and much braver person in 2016" than in 2011.Trump tells media: 'This was a very revealing day'

 

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