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Former President Donald Trump's hush money trial continues in New York.
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 Doug Mills/ReutersThe B-list celebrity lawyer who scored two hush-money deals for a porn star and a former Playboy model came off as an even shadier character on Thursday, as Donald Trump's team worked hard to show that the prosecution's witness was actually engaged in a scheme to extort the politician in the weeks before the 2016 election.
The third week of the former president's criminal trial in New York has focused mostly on the dirty world of scandal coverups, with a Beverly Hills lawyer describing how worried stars, conniving publicists, and unscrupulous entertainment "journalists" manage the underground market for embarrassing information.
But while the trial on Tuesday served as a primer, Thursday showed how even now—nearly eight years after these Trump deals were put into place—a key player still couldn't come to grips with reality over exactly what he did.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Donald Trump's lawyers played hardball, questioning Stormy Daniels's lawyer's history of profiting from celebrities in embarrassing situations.
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Attorney Keith Davidson is cross-examined after a hearing on allegations that Donald Trump again violated a gag order in his New York hush money trial.
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Donald Trump's lawyers used tabloid stories to portray their client as a victim, and other key takeaways from the New York hush money trial.
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