Trump trial live updates: White House executive assistant Madeleine Westerhout to return to the stand in hush money trial

Published: 13:06 BST, 10 May 2024 | Updated: 13:12 BST, 10 May 2024

Donald Trump’s former White House executive assistant Madeleine Westerhout will return to the stand on Friday as the hush money trial continues.

The longtime aide testified about her work in the Oval Office and her close relationship with the former president after Stormy Daniels’ six hours on the stand came to an end.

Judge Juan Merchan rejected calls from the presumptive Republican nominee’s lawyers for a mistrial late on Thursday over Daniels’ salacious testimony about ‘spanking’ Trump with a magazine and having sex without a condom.

Trump has denied 34 counts of falsifying business records by hiding the reimbursement to former lawyer Michael Cohen over the $130,000 he paid Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about their alleged affair.

Cohen is expected to testify himself on Monday, setting up a brilliant showdown in court.

Follow all the action from DailyMail.com’s reporters in the courtroom.

Trump departs Trump Tower en route to court

Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen is expected to testify himself on Monday, setting up a brilliant showdown in court.

He is likely to be on the stand for several days.

Cohen’s recounting of events is central to the case, which hinges on the $130,000 hush money payment he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about her sexual encounter with Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

Donald Trump’s former executive assistant has revealed that Melania Trump was ‘definitely the one in charge’ in her marriage to Donald Trump.

In dramatic testimony to Trump’s hush money trial Madeleine Westerhout said the former first couple had a ‘special relationship’ founded on ‘mutual respect’.

When he was president Trump would call his wife from the Oval Office and ask her to look down from a window in the White House residence.

And when he was leaving on a helicopter he would call her to ‘check in’.

Judge Juan Merchan gave a brutal dressing down of Donald Trump’s defense lawyers in front of the former president Thursday as he denied their motion for a mistrial in the hush money case Thursday afternoon.

It was the second motion for a mistrial from the defense this week after scandalous testimony from porn star Stormy Daniels about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

In his call for a mistrial, lawyer Todd Blanche called Stormy Daniels’ testimony ‘extraordinarily prejudicial’ and noted that even the judge had agreed some of the testimony was ‘unnecessary.’

‘It almost defies belief that we’re here about a records case and the government is asking about an incident that happened in 2006,’ Blanche argued referring to Daniels’ testimony on Tuesday about rolling up a magazine and spanking Trump with it nearly 20 years ago.