Donald Trump’s hush money trial

Keith Davidson, the attorney who represented both Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels, testified for about an hour after the lunch break about his efforts to negotiate settlement deals on behalf of his clients.Continuing his earlier testimony, he said American Media Inc. (AMI), which publishes the National Enquirer, agreed to pay $150,000 to McDougal for her story about an alleged affair with Trump. Davidson received 45% of that payment.He said AMI decided not to actually run the story for two reasons: because they wanted to build McDougal into a “brand” and because there was an…