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Donald Trump’s former White House executive assistant Madeleine Westerhout will return to the stand on Friday as the hush money trial continues.
The longtime aide testified about her work in the Oval Office and her close relationship with the former president after Stormy Daniels’ six hours on the stand came to an end.
Judge Juan Merchan rejected calls from the presumptive Republican nominee’s lawyers for a mistrial late on Thursday over Daniels’ salacious testimony about ‘spanking’ Trump with a magazine and having sex without a condom.
Trump has denied 34 counts of falsifying business records by hiding the reimbursement to former lawyer Michael Cohen over the $130,000 he paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.
Cohen is expected to testify himself on Monday, setting up a brilliant showdown in court.
Follow all the action from DailyMail.com’s reporters in the courtroom.
Photography still banned in the courtroom
After a photographer took a photo from an area where they were not supposed to, the ban on photography in the courtroom remains in place.
Talks continue to see if photographers can make a return.
For the first few weeks of the trial, photographers were allowed in the courtroom at the start of the day to take photographs of Donald Trump at the defense table.
Trump departs Trump Tower en route to court sporting his famous red tie
Trump is en route to the courthouse for Day 15 of his criminal hush money trial.
Michael Cohen expected to testify on Monday
Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen is expected to testify himself on Monday, setting up a brilliant showdown in court.
He is likely to be on the stand for several days.
Cohen's recounting of events is central to the case, which hinges on the $130,000 hush money payment he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.
Judge denied motion for a mistrial in Donald Trump hush money case after defense lawyers claim Stormy Daniels' 'spanking' testimony and no condom claim were 'prejudicial'
Judge Juan Merchan gave a brutal dressing down of Donald Trump's defense lawyers in front of the former president Thursday as he denied their motion for a mistrial in the hush money case Thursday afternoon.
It was the second motion for a mistrial from the defense this week after scandalous testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.
In his call for a mistrial, lawyer Todd Blanche called Stormy Daniels' testimony ‘extraordinarily prejudicial' and noted that even the judge had agreed some of the testimony was 'unnecessary.'
'It almost defies belief that we’re here about a records case and the government is asking about an incident that happened in 2006,' Blanche argued referring to Daniels' testimony on Tuesday about rolling up a magazine and spanking Trump with it nearly 20 years ago.
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