After already complaining about the whole thing earlier in the day on his personal account on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump reportedly was seemingly angry in court on Tuesday during testimony from Stormy Daniels.
Daniels, who allegedly had a sexual encounter with Trump some years ago, was testifying as part of a criminal trial on charges that Trump falsified business records in connection to related hush money that Daniels eventually received before the 2016 election.
“Trump appears to be very upset about having to sit through Daniels’ testimony,” reported POLITICO’s Ben Feuerherd, adding: “When Daniels told jurors that she “swatted” Trump on the backside with a magazine during their encounter in Lake Tahoe, he appeared to mouth “bullshit.””
Trump is compelled to attend the proceedings because of their criminal nature. It’s Trump’s first criminal trial among what current circumstances suggest will eventually be four… though recent developments threw timing of an eventual trial in another of those cases (the classified documents one) into additional uncertainty. In those proceedings, Trump-nominated federal Judge Aileen Cannon granted an apparently indefinite delay of Trump’s requirement to produce a pre-trial notice of classified materials intended for use at trial.
Some of Daniels’ Tuesday testimony focused on details of their alleged sexual encounter, which she described as initiated — to her surprise — by the former president (who hadn’t been president yet at the time) when she was coming back from the bathroom. She also shared other details sure to prove embarrassing for Trump, like him allegedly comparing Daniels to his daughter (presumably meaning Ivanka) and him speaking dismissively of Melania Trump, who eventually became First Lady.
Per Daniels, Donald claimed the two of them didn’t even sleep in the same room. Before getting into those alleged details, the judge had expressed an interest in establishing Daniels’ credibility before jurors, though he sustained some — not all — defense objections while Daniels testified early Tuesday.
