The former President's hush money criminal trial continued today, with at least three witnesses having taken the stand, as salacious details of his alleged affair with Karen McDougal were revealed

The jury in Trump's trial heard arguments last week that the National Enquirer paid former Playboy model Karen McDougal $150,000 to conceal an alleged affair.

"Pecker is not an ordinary witness in this criminal trial like Stormy Daniels or Hope Hicks, or even Michael Cohen"

This left Bove on his back foot when he needed to lean into his cross-examination, which he managed to do. Bove scored some points by showing that the attacks on a few of Trump’s rivals for the 2016 GOP nomination—Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio—were based on reporting recycled from The Guardian and other sources.