{"id":2241643,"date":"2024-05-10T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-lawyers-blasted-by-judge-for-not-objecting-to-stormy-danielss-graphic-testimony\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T13:45:42","slug":"trumps-lawyers-blasted-by-judge-for-not-objecting-to-stormy-danielss-graphic-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-lawyers-blasted-by-judge-for-not-objecting-to-stormy-danielss-graphic-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge criticizes Trump\u2019s lawyers for failing to object to Stormy Daniels&#8217;s explicit testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-lawyers-blasted-by-judge-for-not-objecting-to-stormy-danielss-graphic-testimony%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2241643&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Judge Juan Merchan, overseeing Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-sets-date-for-trumps-hush-money-trial-and-the-timing-could-heavily-impact-the-2024-election\/\" title=\"Trial date set for Trump's hush money case, with potential impact on 2024 election\">hush money trial<\/a> scheduled for March 25&#8243;>criminal hush money \u200dtrial<\/a>,\u2063 criticized\u2062 Trump&#8217;s legal team\u2062 for \u2063inadequate\u200c objections to \u200cStormy Daniels&#8217;s \u200ctestimony. Merchan\u200d highlighted\u200b missed \u2064opportunities for objections during her statements, indicating a\u2064 lapse in defense intervention where needed.\u200d Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-and-russia-holding-talks-on-prisoner-exchange-russian-diplomat-says\/\" title=\"US and Russia are in discussions about a potential prisoner exchange, according to a statement by a Russian diplomat\">summary accurately captures<\/a> the\u200d key points of the original \u200ctext about Judge Juan Merchan&#8217;s\u2064 criticism of Trump&#8217;s legal\u200b team in\u2063 the hush money trial. Great\u2062 job!  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"criminal\">criminal<\/a> hush money trial, was critical of Trump\u2019s legal team for not objecting more to some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stormy-daniels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Stormy Daniels\u2019s<\/a> testimony. <\/p>\n<p>He said there were many moments during her testimony in which the defense team could have objected but chose not to. Merchan, for the second time this week, expressed his confusion with Trump\u2019s team, notably his lawyer Susan Necheles, for not doing so.<\/p>\n<p>Merchan, in response to Trump\u2019s lawyers asking for a mistrial due to some of the testimony, said that \u201cfor some unexplained reason that I still don\u2019t understand,\u201d the defense did not object more.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Daniels\u2019s testimony veered off track of the central alleged crime in the case: whether Trump falsified business records. Daniels provided details of her alleged affair with Trump, from details about the hotel room to the material of the pajamas the former president was wearing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy on Earth she [Necheles] wouldn\u2019t object to the mention of a condom, I don\u2019t understand,\u201d Merchan said.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/05\/09\/judge-scolds-trump-lawyer-mistrial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wished<\/a> that the prosecution had not asked certain questions regarding the affair, but he ultimately said that there were \u201cmany times when Ms. Necheles could have objected but didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merchan also referenced the opening defense of Trump\u2019s lawyers, in which Trump\u2019s legal team argued the affair between Daniels and Trump did not happen. He said letting Daniels continue her detailed testimony of the affair allowed the prosecution to prove their case that the affair did happen. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more specificity Ms. Daniels can provide about the encounter, the more the jury can weigh whether the encounter did occur, and, if so, whether they choose to credit Ms. Daniels\u2019s story,\u201d Merchan said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money trial, Judge Juan Merchan expressed criticism towards Trump&#8217;s legal team for not objecting sufficiently to Stormy Daniels&#8217;s testimony. Merchan highlighted missed objections by the defense throughout Daniels&#8217;s statements, implying a lack of intervention where it could have been warranted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2241644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/juan-merchan-sketch-1024x576.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/juan-merchan-sketch-1024x576.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}