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Judge Rejects Mistrial Motion After Stormy Daniels Testifies in Trump Trial

HeadlineMay 08, 2024

Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday about her brief affair with Donald Trump that is at the center of the criminal hush money case against the former president. Daniels’s testimony prompted Trump’s legal team to request a mistrial, but Judge Juan Merchan rejected the motion. The judge also ordered Trump to stop audibly cursing during the trial. Meanwhile, in a major development in another Trump case, federal Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Trump’s trial over his mishandling of classified documents. Cannon, who is a Trump appointee, said there are too many pretrial issues to resolve before a trial date could be set.

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