Justice Juan Merchan said Trump’s claim that Daniels and NBC conspired to release the film close to the trial to damage him was unsupported
subpoena to Comcast-owned NBC Universal for material related to a recent documentary about porn star Stormy Daniels was blocked on Friday by the judge overseeing the former U.S. president’s April 15 criminal trial.
“His subpoena and the demands therein are the very definition of a fishing expedition,” the judge wrote in a court order.Trump is accused of covering up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 payment to Daniels for her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006.
In Friday’s order, Merchan wrote that Trump subpoenaed NBC on March 11 for documents related to the trial’s premiere date and any compensation to Daniels. NBC asked Merchan to block the subpoena on March 20, and said Daniels had no right to approve the documentary’s content or release timing, the order said.
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