NEW YORK — Jurors heard from three witnesses Friday — a former Trump Organization employee, the former publisher of the National Enquirer and a banker — on the fourth day of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
Trump is accused of falsifying business records to hide payments he made to keep stories about his alleged marital infidelity out of the news as he sought to win the 2016 presidential election. At the heart of the case is a $130,000 payment made to ensure the silence of adult film star Stormy Daniels, who claims to have had a sexual encounter with Trump years before he ran for president.
Most of Friday’s proceedings focused on testimony from former American Media Inc. CEO David Pecker, who had returned to the witness stand for a fourth day. Pecker testified that he met with Trump and Trump’s then-fixer, Michael Cohen, …