Who’s winning at the Trump trial?

DONALD TRUMP’S felony trial is nearing its denouement eventually. The prosecutors’ star witness is due on the stand imminently, at which level their story of the previous president’s duplicity will begin to cohere. In 11 days of testimony different witnesses have skewered Mr Trump, flattered him and revealed his predilections, together with his behavior of signing cheques in Sharpie pen. However none has but implicated him straight within the charged crimes. That’s as much as Michael Cohen, his former lapdog lawyer who, after going rogue six years ago, has been busy writing books with the delicate titles “Disloyal” and “Revenge”.

Manhattan’s district lawyer accuses Mr Trump of falsifying enterprise data to hide hush cash paid to Stormy Daniels, a porn star, earlier than the 2016 election. (He denies it.) In two days of charged testimony Ms Daniels described having intercourse with Mr Trump in 2006 at a celeb golf event, when she was 27 and he was 60. She arrived at his penthouse suite at Harrah’s on line casino in Lake Tahoe for what she took to be dinner and a chat. Ever the businessman, he requested her vital questions: Are porn actors unionised? Do they get residuals? Ms Daniels alleged that he then disrobed, giving her a “soar scare”. “I used to be making an attempt to consider something aside from what was occurring there,” she stated of the intercourse, which was temporary, consensual and unsightly. Afterwards, Mr Trump known as her “honey bunch”. Later, they met a couple of extra instances, and he dangled the potential for making her a contestant on “The Apprentice”.