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Stormy Daniels, the adult film actor at the centre of Donald Trump’s “hush money” case, is expected to testify at the former president’s criminal trial in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The 45-year-old, who was paid $130,000 in the run-up to the 2016 presidential election to stay quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, will take the stand once the examination of a publishing executive from Penguin Random House ends, a Trump lawyer said.
Trump is charged with falsifying the business records behind the payments. The presumptive Republican nominee for president, who had married his third wife Melania a year prior to the alleged encounter, has always denied any romantic involvement with Daniels.
Prosecutors have alleged that Trump directed his ex-fixer Michael Cohen to pay off Daniels because he was concerned the revelations would cost him the 2016…
