Donald Trump’s hush money trial

Madeleine Westerhout, despite being called by the prosecution, served largely as a character witness that softened the appearance of former President Donald Trump, said CNN national correspondent Kristen Holmes on Friday morning.”I do think that [Westerhout’s] testimony, in general, helps the defense because it softens Donald Trump,” said Holmes. “I mean, look at the witnesses that we’ve had so far — the kind of seedy underbelly that Donald Trump was associating with, or associating through Michael Cohen with. Then you have the ‘Access Hollywood tape,’ then you have this alleged affair in…