Donald Trump wishes Melania ‘happy birthday’ at hush money trial over payments to porn star
- The comments come a day after witness David Pecker testified that Trump never mentioned worrying what his wife thought about his alleged affairs
- The National Enquirer publisher said he never heard Trump voice concerns for his family when working to cover up unfavourable stories – only for his campaign
Donald Trump walked into his hush money trial on Friday and wished his wife Melania a happy birthday – the day after former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker testified Trump never mentioned worrying about what she thought about his alleged affairs at the heart of the state’s case against him.
“I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very happy birthday,” Trump told reporters on his way into the courtroom. “It’d be nice to be with her but I’m at a courthouse for a rigged trial.”
Trump said he would be jetting off to Florida on Friday evening to join Melania, who is celebrating her 54th birthday.
Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids, was the prosecution’s first witness and was on his fourth day on the stand on Friday facing cross-examination from Trump lawyer Emil Bove.
The long-time publisher told the courtroom that after Trump announced his candidacy, he never heard him voice concerns for his family when working to cover up unfavourable stories – only for his campaign.
Trump has been charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a conspiracy to influence the results of the 2016 election.
