NEW YORK—Stormy Daniels testified Thursday that she had no direct knowledge of former President Donald Trump’s involvement in the $130,000 payment made to keep her quiet about claims of an alleged affair in 2016, which is at the center of the case against him.
Daniels’ detailed testimony about her alleged affair with Trump in 2006 prompted the defense to twice motion for a mistrial, once on Tuesday and again on Thursday, though Judge Juan Merchan denied the motion both times.
Still, her admission that she did not know Trump’s role in the deal highlighted that she was testifying despite being unable to speak to the core charges—that Trump falsified business records while reimbursing his former attorney Michael Cohen for the payment—suggesting she was on the witness stand for another reason.
“There was zero relevance to her testimony,” defense…
