Live updates: Stormy Daniels testifies in Donald Trump hush money trial

“There have been many occasions, not as soon as or occasions, the place Ms Necheles may have objected and didn’t,” says Decide Merchan.

“For some unexplained motive, which I don’t perceive, there was no objection to materials [or] point out of the condom … I agree, that shouldn’t have come out. I want that didn’t come out … For the lifetime of me I don’t know what she didn’t object.”

He additionally mentions that Daniels had backtracked instantly when the way in which her phrases got here out made it sound like she would possibly’ve been drunk or beneath the affect, but Necheles stored bringing it up, drilling it into the jury’s ears.

Steinglass wraps up and Todd Blanche rises.

“What’s it Mr Blanche?” Decide Merchan says.

“Very briefly. Very briefly.”

He says what the prosecution stated is “not true,” and that Karen McDougal was a witness. Merchan cuts him off.

“I’m not gonna get slowed down on that … That has nothing to do with this movement on a mistrial.”

“I’m making you the ruling. I resolve.”

Steinglass mentions that they by no means had plans to name McDougal, she was simply on the witness record.

Blanche holds his arm out and appears on the decide after which at fellow protection legal professional Emil Bove as if asking, “are you severe?”

Bove smiles and shakes his head.

The protection is “mainly attempting to have their cake and eat it too,” Steinglass says.

They’re attempting to discredit her whereas blocking prosecutors from having the ability to corroborate any of the main points of her claims, he says.

“The main points are important to offer the jury the instruments they should analyze her credibility.”

“Blanche complains that the main points are messy … These particulars about what occurred in that room, these messy particulars, that’s motive, that’s Mr Trump’s motive to silence this girl in 2016 lower than a month earlier than the election. … That’s the reason Mr Trump tried so exhausting to forestall the American individuals from listening to about this.”

Steinglass provides that the prosecution went out of its approach to keep away from different particulars to keep away from embarrassing Trump, together with particulars concerning the intercourse itself.

Trump simply drew Blanche shut and pointed as if telling him to reply to that…

Blanche goes over Daniels’ testimony from yesterday, making a really related argument that he made earlier than for a mistrial. As you’ll keep in mind, the decide shot that down.

“It has nothing to do with the case and why we’re right here,” Blanche says.

“We didn’t know these questions had been coming,” he says. “We had been sitting right here, listening to that for the primary time.”

Blanche notes that there have been objections, and so they had been sustained.

“That doesn’t excuse the conduct and that doesn’t excuse the query,” Blanche says. “That’s why this kind of proof is so harmful and so prejudicial.”

“The questions on carrying a condom, decide? … We didn’t know this was coming.”

“It’s a canine whistle for rape.”

Assistant District Legal professional Josh Steinglass steps up for the defence.

“OK, in order that was loads … Most of which was not true.”

He notes that almost all of those particulars had been additionally in a December interview with prosecutors shared with the protection, the Anderson Cooper interview and elsewhere.

“That declare of ambush is simply nonsense.”