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Adult film actress Stormy Daniels took the witness stand at former President Donald Trump's New York criminal trial on Tuesday, testifying under oath about the sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006 and the $130,000 deal for her silence that was struck during the closing days of the 2016 presidential campaign.
Daniels described parts of the 2006 encounter in detail and said at one point she thinks she "blacked out" and that Trump did not use a condom. That led Trump attorney Todd Blanche to "move for a mistrial" when the two sides returned from their lunch break, saying that Daniels' testimony was “unduly and inappropriately prejudicial.”
“There’s no way to unring the bell in our view,” Blanche said during a dramatic exchange with prosecutors.
Judge Juan Merchan shot down the mistrial most but acknowledged that "there were things that would have been better left unsaid,” and said he would strike some of her testimony from the record.