Trump trial: Stormy Daniels to testify about hush money, alleged sex with ex-president

• Porn star Stormy Daniels is expected to testify in the New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump, NBC News reported.
• Trump deleted a social media post fuming about how prosecutors in his criminal hush money trial are withholding their schedule of planned witnesses.
• The Truth Social message was posted and deleted less than one day after Judge Juan Merchan threatened the former president with jail time for repeatedly violating his gag order.
• Trump's since-deleted post also accused Merchan of political bias.

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Porn star Stormy Daniels is expected to testify later Tuesday in the New York criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump, NBC News reported.

Daniels is at the center of the historic case in which Trump is charged with falsifying business records related to a payment made to keep Daniels from speaking before the 2016 presidential election about alleged sex with Trump in 2006.

Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 less than two weeks before that election, which Trump went on to win. The scheme by Trump, who reimbursed Cohen while he was president, amounted to an attempt to unlawfully influence the election, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Before the jury entered the courtroom Tuesday morning, Trump attorney Susan Necheles argued that Daniels should not be asked to testify "about any details of any sexual acts."

There is "no reason" that details of the alleged tryst "should be coming into a case about books and records," Necheles told Judge Juan Merchan.

A prosecutor countered that it is very important to delve into the story of the alleged affair, including the conversation that led up to Daniels and