Trump Trial’s Salacious Statements Never Should Have Happened: Experts

This week’s testimony of an adult film actress against former President Donald Trump was headline-grabbing and gasp-inspiring. It also never should have been permitted, legal analysts say. “It’s shameful that the judge allowed it,” Phill Kline, a Liberty University law professor and former Kansas attorney general, told The Epoch Times. That’s because the sometimes-lewd statements of Stephanie Clifford, also known as “Stormy Daniels,” about an alleged 2006 one-night affair were unrelated to the business-records accusations President Trump faces. Allowing such testimony violated a basic American legal precept: That prosecutors are barred from presenting irrelevant evidence, especially if it “could incite a jury, because of dislike or anger, to punish the person, regardless of whether they find them guilty or not,” Mr. Kline said....