The Manhattan courtroom hosting Donald Trump’s felon election interference case was abuzz with action as three witnesses testified, but reportedly, it wasn’t enough excitement for some.

• Early in the session, under cross examination, David Pecker admitted to holding stories until after the election because the stories would be detrimental to Trump’s campaign.
• Pecker testified that running the McDougal story would have been “pure gold” for the National Enquirer, but didn’t because it would hurt Trump.
• Pecker said he did not take the lead in paying off Stormy Daniels for two reason:  he had already laid out a lot of money to cover up Trump’s indiscretions, but also, he did not want to get involved with a porn star scandal for fear he would lose distribution in stores like Walmart if evangelicals learned he paid a porn star.
• Reports from inside the courtroom say that Donald Trump fell asleep at the defense table for the third consecutive session.
• Trump’s attorneys’ attempted to undermine Pecker’s credibility by questioning him about minor inconsistencies in what he said during the trial and what he said in previous interviews.  It blew up in their face when prosecutors showed all the times Pecker mentioned a specific issue, not the one time he didn’t.
• Trump’s gatekeeper at the Trump Org, Rhona Graff took the stand to verify some documents, to confirm that Trump had contact info for both Daniels and McDougal (undermining his claim that he didn’t know them/know them well) and to establish Stormy Daniels was at Trump Tower.
• Graff recalled seeing Daniels in Trump Tower days before Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
• Although she heard gossip about Daniels being on The Apprentice, Graff did not directly hear any discussion from Trump about it.
• Graff talked about how she enjoyed working for Trump for 30+ years.  Trump reportedly reached out and in a friendly manner, touched Graff’s hand after her testimony. 
• The third witness of the day, Gary Farro of Flagstar Bank took the stand.  Trump lawyer Michael Cohen contact at the bank, he testified Cohen told him he needed a home equity line of credit and LLC for “capital real estate.”
• Farro also testified about a series of 2016 emails and messages from Cohen relating to Resolution Consultants LLC, the Delaware-registered corporation Cohen set up to filter the payment to Daniels.  In October 2016, emails show Cohen urgently trying to reach Farro about setting up a bank account for the company; Cohen cut the check to Stormy Daniels in October 2016.
• Prosecutors started laying out the money trail that links Trump to Cohen to Daniels.
• Shown copies of records by prosecutors, Farro confirmed forms Cohen filled out did not check boxes indicating it was politically connected.