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NEWSLINE PAPER,- During his tenth day in court, Donald Trump's legal battle took front stage in a courtroom drama full of scandalous discoveries, hush-money payments, and accusations of breaching gag orders.
The defence tried to paint Keith Davidson as a Hollywood entrepreneur, but his testimony—as a lawyer who arranged a hush-money arrangement with porn star Stormy Daniels—made headlines. Davidson's lawyer Emil Bove questioned Davidson's integrity and suggested that she was involved in previous celebrity controversies as the questioning heated up.
In the face of charges of "extortion" and "sex-tape brokering," Davidson repeatedly invoked attorney-client privilege to vehemently defend the validity of the agreements he helped to broker. The $130,000 payment to Daniels soon before the 2016 presidential election was the link that prosecutors sought to establish between Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen.
Davidson gave details on the payment to Daniels and a prior agreement with the National Enquirer to suppress Playboy model Karen McDougal's allegations of having an affair with Trump. Text conversations exchanged on election night reflected the lawyer's hints at an awareness that their acts might have affected Trump's presidential campaign.
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Trump denies having had any sexual relations with Daniels as he is charged with 34 counts of fabricating business records in connection to the payment to her. The courtroom drama exposes the controversies around Trump's presidency by exploring the nuances of his previous transactions.
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