Judge denies Trump mistrial request after Stormy Daniels ‘extraordinarily prejudicial’ testimony

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A judge on Tuesday denied former President Donald Trump‘s request for a mistrial in his hush money case, which Trump made after pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels delivered salacious testimony that tested the limits the court had placed on what she could say.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche told Judge Juan Merchan that Daniels’s testimony differed from the “consensual encounter with President Trump that she was trying to sell” in 2016, according to CNN’s reports from the courtroom.

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