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Until this week, Donald Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan has been, despite its unprecedented nature, relatively boring. Perhaps intentionally so. Then came the prosecutors’ most notable and attention-grabbing witness to date — the former adult film star Stormy Daniels. It was a remarkable and distinctly awkward affair for the former president, who sat through hours of detailed and embarrassing testimony about their alleged extramarital sexual relationship.
But thanks to the absence of cameras in the courtroom — and despite the wall-to-wall coverage — there’s much that remains unclear to those of us on the outside, regarding Daniels and much else. So we convened the second in a series of roundtable discussions with a group of POLITICO’s legal and political reporters to take readers behind the scenes of the courtroom and the Trump campaign.