Hulk Hogan, hurricanes and a blockbuster recording: A week in review of the Trump hush money trial
Crucial witnesses took the stand in the second week of testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial, including a California lawyer who negotiated deals at the center of the case and a longtime adviser to the former president.
Jurors heard a potentially pivotal piece of evidence — a 2016 recording of Trump discussing a plan to buy a Playboy model's silence — as well as testimony about the wrestler Hulk Hogan and hurricanes, literal and figurative.
Outside the jury's presence, Trump was fined for running afoul of a judge's gag order. Additional sanctions could await the presumptive Republican nominee for president.
A look at some of the highlights from the past week:
A POLITICAL HURRICANE ... AND AN ACTUAL ONE
, a onetime Trump confidant who for years was central in his orbit, described in's disclosure of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” recording in which Trump boasted about grabbing women's genitals without their permission.
