If you missed the evidence from day 10 of Donald Trump’s hush money trial, here’s a rundown of the key moments:
Gag order hearing
The day began with the prosecution laying out its case that Trump has further violated a gag order in the case on four different occasions.
It comes after the former president was already fined $9,000 and held in contempt by the judge for breaches of the order on Tuesday.
Prosecutor Christopher Conroy said Trump “knowingly and wilfully violated the court’s orders,” and stated that $1,000 was being sought for each alleged violation – but no jail time.
Defence lawyer Todd Blanche painted a picture of Trump being the victim of attacks by the media and his former lawyer Michael Cohen.
A judge will hand down his ruling at a later time.
Settlement signed using pseudonym
Keith Davidson, a lawyer who negotiated so-called hush money payments, returned to the stand after his evidence dominated most of Tuesday’s session.
He testified today that Michael Cohen had signed a settlement between Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels on behalf of “David Dennison” – a pseudonym he said referred to the former president.
The settlement paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about her claims that she had a sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier.
Cohen ‘upset’ about article
Mr Davidson recalled that Cohen was “very upset” about a Wall Street Journal article, published just before the 2016 election, which revealed the payment arrangement with Karen McDougal.
He said Cohen told him “his boss was very upset” – with his boss understood to be Trump.
‘What have we done?’
Stormy Daniels’ former lawyer also recalled joking with National Enquirer editor-in-chief Dylan Howard about Trump’s election success in November 2016.
“What have we done?” he had texted Mr Howard.
He told the court there was an “understanding” their activities “may have in some way assisted the presidential campaign of Donald Trump”.
He also discussed a phone call with “despondent” Cohen after the election, in which Cohen griped about Trump not taking him to Washington DC or reimbursing him for the $130,000 payment for Stormy Daniels.
Cross-examination gets tense
There were tense moments between Mr Davidson and Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove during cross-examination as he attempted to cast doubt on how much Mr Davidson knew about any involvement Trump had in silencing his clients before the election.
Mr Bove pressed him on his understanding of extortion law and brought up previous cases where he says the lawyer was involved in soliciting money to suppress embarrassing stories.
Mr Davidson invoked lawyer-client privilege in response to several questions, as well as responding that he didn’t know or couldn’t recall.
At one point Mr Bove accused him of playing “lawyer games”.
2018 call between Cohen and Davidson
The court was played a recording of a private conversation between Cohen and Mr Davidson, taped by Mr Cohen in 2018, in which he said Stormy Daniels was experiencing “settler’s remorse” over her deal.
He denied a suggestion that Ms Daniels’ goal was to have “leverage” over Trump.
Forensic analyst called as witness
Douglas Daus, a forensic analyst from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, was called for a short time on the stand at the end of the session.
He was probed on how his office extracts data and was taken through certain exhibits from two of Michael Cohen’s iPhones which he was handed to look at as part of the investigation into Trump.
His evidence is set to continue tomorrow.
