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Supporters react as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Freeland, Mich., Wednesday, May 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Stormy Daniels’ steamy testimony isn’t expected to sway the presidential race

Adult film actress Stormy Daniels' testimony about an extramarital sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump is the kind of thing that would sink a normal politician. But there was no indication on Wednesday that his Rolodex of congressional supporters or evangelical base was ready to ditch him over Ms. Daniels' X-rated narrative.

May 8, 2024
Former President Donald Trump walks to speak to reporters at Manhattan criminal court, Monday, May 6, 2024 in New York. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP)

Stormy Daniels takes stand, dishes tawdry testimony in Trump trial

Prosecutors dove straight into the seamy details of the hush money case against former President Donald Trump on Tuesday by putting adult-film actress Stormy Daniels on the stand to testify about an alleged sexual encounter in a Lake Tahoe suite in 2006 and efforts to sell her story before the presidential election a decade later.

May 7, 2024
Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table with his attorneys Susan Necheles, from left, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, in Manhattan criminal court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in New York. (Sarah Yenesel/Pool Photo via AP)

Judge rejects Trump’s motion for mistrial over Stormy testimony

Former President Donald Trump moved for a mistrial Tuesday, saying testimony offered by porn star Stormy Daniels went too far. The motion was swiftly rejected, though the attempt will preserve some of Mr. Trump's rights in an appeal of a potential conviction.

May 7, 2024
Stormy Daniels appears at an event, May 23, 2018, in West Hollywood, Calif. The hush money trial of former President Donald Trump begins Monday, April 15, 2024, with jury selection. It's the first criminal trial of a former U.S. commander-in-chief. The charges in the trial center on $130,000 in payments that Trump's company made to his then-lawyer, Michael Cohen. He paid that sum on Trump's behalf to keep Daniels from going public, a month before the election, with her claims of a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Stormy Daniels takes the stand in Trump trial

Porn star Stormy Daniels took the witness stand Tuesday in former President Donald Trump's hush money trial, a remarkable moment that breathed life into proceedings that had been mired in copies of checks, invoices and other mundane details of the state's case.

May 7, 2024