Maggie Haberman Visibly Grossed Out While Recalling Stormy Daniels Testimony About Sex with Trump: ‘Let Me Stop’

CNN’s Maggie Haberman stopped herself mid-sentence while recalling the salacious testimony of Stormy Daniels in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial.

Daniels testified on Tuesday and gave graphic descriptions of the sexual encounter she said she had with Trump in 2006. The former president is on trial for falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments he made before the 2016 election to cover up extramarital affairs – including one with Daniels. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies the affair.

During Daniels’ testimony, Judge Juan Merchan sustained several objections from Trump’s lawyers, who took issue with the detailed testimony about sex positions and a lack of a condom. Merchan was said to be “noticeably uncomfortable” with Daniels responses.

Appearing on Wednesday’s edition of The Source on CNN, Haberman told host Kaitlan Collins what it was like hearing Daniels in person.

“It’s been over 24 hours,” Collins observed. “I kind of feel like I’m still processing what we witnessed in there.”

“What I do for a living requires words,” said Haberman, who is also a New York Times reporter. “And I was still having trouble to come up with the words to describe what I saw.”

Haberman went on to say it is a “travesty” that cameras are not allowed in the courtroom.

She then described the scene in the courtroom before beginning to recall Daniels’ testimony:

But it was it was incredibly intense. As you said, a lot of the detail was excruciating. Prosecutors made the argument that they needed to get into some of this detail to show what she would have said, had she told her story in 2016 and therefore, what Trump was worried about coming out. That’s their argument. The judge had put pretty constrained parameters on what that was supposed to be. And as you said, her testimony blew past that over and over and over. Todd Blanche – Trump’s lead defense lawyer – objected several times. Many of those objections were sustained. That’s all stuff the jury got to see and the judge was clearly not pleased as we got to see out of the jury’s presence.

But it was a lot. I mean, it was, it was talk about a condom. It was talk about the sexual position. It was, it was, it was, I don’t, I, let me stop.

As she wrapped up her response, Haberman closed her eyes and held her hands up with her palms facing outward as if to fend off additional memories of Daniels’ testimony.

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