For the second time in two days (of court proceedings), former President Donald Trump’s legal team moved for a mistrial in the Manhattan criminal case charging Trump with falsifying business records. On Thursday, Stormy Daniels, the woman whose non-disclosure agreement underlies the prosecution’s claim that the former president wrongly classified payments made to his former attorney, Michael Cohen, as legal expenses, took to the stand for a second day of testimony.
After Tuesday’s testimony, the defense team moved for a mistrial, contending that Judge Juan Merchan allowed in testimony that was prejudicial and not probative. Merchan, while agreeing that there were “some things that would have been better left unsaid,” declined to grant the mistrial, and pointed out to the defense that they had a responsibility to raise timely objections.
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