Day 14 of Donald Trump’s Manhattan election interference hush money case brought the end of the most overtly salacious testimony provided by porn star Stormy Daniels and more tears from a Friend of Donald.

• Attending today’s proceedings to support Donald Trump:  Republican Florida Senator Rick Scott, who led health insurance company HCA as it undertook the most massive Medicaid fraud scheme in US history, resulting in one of the nation’s largest civil penalties.
• Stormy Daniels returned to the stand for a second day of testimony.  Cross examination by defense attorney Susan Necheles continued
• Necheles worked to undermine Daniels’ credibility, portraying her as a money-grubbing slut.  Daniels matched Necheles’s tone defiantly, admitting that she entered porn because she sought to make a living.
• Necheles attempts to characterize as a greedy opportunist, however by doing so, she’s highlighting before the jury that Donald Trump chooses to socialize with these characters.
• Daniels said she went on a number of paranormal investigations and she claimed she thought her house was haunted.  A team of experts she brought in found much of the claimed paranormal activity in the house was the result of a “giant possum.”
• Necheles noted Daniels was selling merchandise based on her involvement in the case.  “Not unlike Mr. Trump,” Daniels responded.  
• Citing Daniels’ credits as a “writer” on porn films, Necheles asserted Daniels made up the entire story:  “You have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real.”  Daniels responded, “Wow.  That’s not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real just like what happened to me in that room.”  She later added If that story was untrue, I would’ve written it to be a lot better.”
• Regardless of Necheles’ questioning of Daniels to try to impeach her, Necheles did nothing to undermine Daniels’ account of a sexual encounter with Trump.  
• Trump’s personal secretary Madeleine Westerhout was the last witness of the day.  She was fired from her White House job during Trump’s administration for leaking information to reporters, an act she called a “youthful indiscretion.”  
• Westerhout laid out how checks from the Trump Org got to Trump while he was in the White House.  She noted checks were never sent to the White House; they were sent to the residences of Trump lackeys who would hand deliver them.  Bonus:  this way, they avoided the White House mail registry system.  
• Prompted by Necheles, Westerhout called Trump “a really good boss” who “forgave” her for her indiscretion.  
• Westerhout was 28 years old when she was fired by Trump’s administration, one year older than Stormy Daniels during her encounter with Trump.
• One of the comments Stormy Daniels reportedly made to prosecutors in pretrial interviews was [possible paraphrase] “I never felt a 60-year-old before and it was gross,” according to comments in the transcript made at the bench relating to how granular Daniels’ testimony could have been.
• Merchan denied a request to modify Trump’s gag order after Daniels finished testifying, presumably to allow Trump to slander the witness.  Merchan denied the request saying “The reason why the gag order is in place to begin with is precisely because of the nature of these attacks, the vitriol. These were very real, very threatening attacks on potential witnesses.”
• Renewing their claims from their cry for a mistrial yesterday, Todd Blanche, another Trump lawyer, again claimed Daniels’ new details about her encounter with Trump irreparably tainted the jury against Trump.  Merchan again denied the motion, but noted that he struck some testimony from the record.