‘Just Read It!’ CNN’s Jake Tapper Disgusted To Report What ‘Descriptions’ Will Be Off-Limits In Stormy Daniels-Trump Testimony

CNN anchor Jake Tapper was too disgusted to read which “descriptions” would be off limits during the bombshell Stormy Daniels – Trump testimony, despite Kasie Hunt’s cajoling him “Just read it!”

Tuesday morning saw a bombshell go off ahead of the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial, as news broke that Daniels herself would be taking the witness stand.

When court began, Judge Juan Merchan laid out which lines of questioning would be permitted regarding Daniels and former President Donald Trump — and which would not.

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN’s branded coverage of the trial, Tapper began to read the reporting, then exclaimed “I can;’t believe I have to read this on television!”:

JAKE TAPPER: The prosecutor says they are being careful to omit some details that are, quote, too salacious.

Again, this is the where we are, as a country right now that we are having this discussion in this debate in the courtroom. And Dana Bash, I guess it’s good that the prosecutor says that they’re going to omit some details that are too salacious.

The prosecutors is also saying is also saying, quote, in terms of the sexual act, it will be very basic. I can’t believe I have to read this on television! It’s it’s not going to involve any.

DANA BASH: Better you than me, Jake Tapper.

JAKE TAPPER: It’s not going to involve any descriptions of, of anything in particular. So, so.

KASIE HUNT: Just read it! Read it on the screen!

JAKE TAPPER: The, the idea of the detail of this and how humiliating or detailed it’s going to be or needs to be, is very much, are being debated right now. And I’m assuming the jury is not there.

They’re talking about this, before a Stormy Daniels, who will not be the first witness today, we’re told, at least according to the defense attorneys. The second witness.

But it is this encounter between Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. Alleged encounter, I should say, because he still says it never happened.

This alleged encounter happened in 2006. He was married to Melania Trump. Is who he’s still married to. She had just had their son, Barron. And it is this encounter that, has prompted all of this, not necessarily the encounter itself, but trying to hide this encounter, allegedly from the American people in October 2016, right before the presidential election.

Right now, Todd Blanche, the Trump attorney, is whispering to Trump, as Hoffinger the prosecutor talks about Stormy Daniels on the witness stand. Dana– Hoffinger says it’s important for us to elicit how she came to have sex with him and how she felt about it.

I’m not quite sure why it’s important, for them to elicit that. Nichols. Nichols. Rather, the Trump attorney, Susan Necheles, reiterates that this is a case about books and records. Which is true. She’s correct about that. Dana.

DANA BASH: Well, maybe it’s all true. That. Look, this is, by all accounts, understandably, the, testimony that Donald Trump has been most concerned about, most, worried about when it comes to everything, but probably most importantly, his family.

And, this is the kind of conversation Merchan says it’s fine to elicit that Trump and Daniels had sex. That’s fine, but we don’t need to know the details. The judge says.

KASIE HUNT: Nope! Nope. We don’t!

JAKE TAPPER: I think I, I think I speak for the American people when I say thank you, thank you. Judge Merchan, appreciate that.

Watch above via CNN’s branded coverage of the Stormy Daniels hush money-election interference trial.

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