Reporting from inside the courthouse
Todd Blanche is done and Susan Hoffinger, a prosecutor, stands up. She says that Daniels's story is important for motive and intent, to illustrate what the defendant, Trump, didn’t want the public to know before the election. This doubles as a chance for Hoffinger to explain to the press — sitting behind her in the courtroom, even as the jurors remain absent — why the prosecution felt Daniels’s testimony was important.
