'He's awake!' Experts explain why hush money trial witness kept Trump from taking his nap
April 26, 2024
Former President Donald Trump's former assistant Rhona Graff took the stand Friday in his criminal fraud trial to testify about her role as "keeper of the keys," according to experts watching the trial.
Trump biographer Tim O'Brien discussed Graff's testimony on MSNBC Friday, saying the information she had to give involved many documents for the company.
"There is a massive paper trail around Graff," O'Brien said.
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MSNBC reporter Vaughn Hillyard called Graff "an essential figure" in Trump's office as the assistant to man who refused to "put words onto paper."
"Of course, a lot of these questions could come down to debates over, you know, invoices and the extent to which he kept financial records when checks were brought to him," Hillyard explained. "A lot of those are questions we may be able to get answered from Rhona Graff."
On the witness stand, Graff revealed she saw adult film star Stormy Daniels in Trump Tower in 2015 and then again days before the inauguration in Jan. 2017, MSNBC read off during her testimony. Graff told Trump's lawyers she assumed that Daniels was there in 2015 to be "cast" on his show "The Apprentice."
Tristan Snell, a former assistant New York Attorney General, quipped that all of the information Graff could reveal would likely keep Trump from resting in the courtroom.
Earlier in the day, the former president was seen taking a "bonafide nap."
"He's awake! He's finally awake," Snell said. "He might be unfazed so far, but he's not going to get his afternoon nap."
See the video of the discussion on MSNBC below or at the link here.
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