Live updates: Stormy Daniels testifies in Trump hush money trial

The new documents reveal some of Nauta’s answers to questions from FBI agents investigating the case.

John Bowden has the story:

Donald Trump is now planning to headline a political fundraiser on the day he demanded a break in his hush money trial so that he could attend his youngest son Barron’s high school graduation.

On Monday, the Minnesota Republican Party announced that the former president will headline its annual Lincoln Reagan Dinner event on 17 May.

“We are thrilled to welcome President Trump back to Minnesota,” state GOP chairman David Hann said in a statement. “I can think of no one more fitting to join us this year than President Trump.”

The adult film star testified about a highly-publicised sexual encounter from 2006 at the centre of the hush money case, reports Alex Woodward.

Stormy Daniels’ hotly anticipated testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial finally got under way in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, with the adult film star revealing intimate details about the alleged affair at the heart of the case.

The Manhattan jurors and Mr Trump alike sat, rapt, listening as she testified about how her meeting with the then-60-year-old real estate mogul at a celebrity golf tournament turned sexual.

Her testimony was so detailed — providing comments about everything from what the floor tiles looked like to Mr Trump’s Hugh Hefner-like pajamas — that the judge warned her to stop including any “unnecessary narrative.”

In the afternoon, the defense team also took issue with Ms Daniels’ testimony, calling for a mistrial. The judge denied the request.

For almost four hours on the 13th day of his hush money trial, Mr Trump was forced to listen to her memory of the romantic liaison that ultimately led to his alleged criminal activity.

The former president is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records related to a $130,000 payment to Ms Daniels before the 2016 presidential election in exchange for her keeping quiet over their alleged 2006 affair.

Here are the key takeaways from the dramatic day in court:

On Tuesday, Harris Faulkner and Lisa Kennedy Montgomery dismissed Ms Daniels’ claims that she was “nervous” and had “blacked out” during an alleged sexual encounter with the former president, saying that they were “hard to believe” due to her profession.

The pair were later slammed online for their “cackling and cruelty” which was described as “unbelievable” and “slut-shaming”.

Judge Aileen Cannon has indefinitely postponed Donald Trump’s classified documents trial in Florida.

The court “determines that finalization of a trial date at this juncture — before resolution of the myriad and interconnected pre-trial and CIPA issues remaining and forthcoming — would be imprudent and inconsistent with the court’s duty to fully and fairly consider the various pending pre-trial motions before the court.”