It was the moment that Donald Trump’s hush money trial — bogged down in recent days in dreary testimony about accounting — roared back to life on Tuesday. A former president — who could find himself back behind the Oval Office desk in January — came face-to-face for the first time in years with the adult film star whom he’s accused of silencing with a hush money payment.

The Hill’s reporters covering former President Trump’s hush money criminal case answered questions about the ongoing trial in New York. Trump is standing trial on 34 counts of

Access the daily court transcripts from former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, including testimony from David Pecker and Stormy Daniels.