Trump’s trial has nothing to do with Stormy Daniels

Why did Stormy Daniels testify in court yesterday about her allegedly sexual encounter with Donald Trump?

Anybody who has followed the Donald Trump story in recent years will have already heard most of Stormy’s account of her interactions with him. Daniels has a sense of humour. Like many others, she enjoys mocking Trump in public. And in our licentious yet strangely puritanical times, details such as the porn star spanking the 45th president with a rolled-up copy of Forbes magazine are just too much to resist. 

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Nobody seems to care much. Veracity and justice are not what this trial is about. The case – bodged together as it is by the flagrantly partisan prosecutor Alvin Bragg – is meant to be about the falsification of business records for the purpose of concealing a crime.