Here are the 22 witnesses who testified at Trump’s trial
Former President Trump’s hush money trial resumed Tuesday, and the defense rested its case-in-chief within an hour, after finishing with its second and final witness.
Across 16 days of testimony, 22 witnesses took the stand.
Here’s the list, in order of appearance:
Prosecution witnesses
- David Pecker, ex-publisher of the National Enquirer who agreed to look for negative stories about Trump
- Rhona Graff, Trump’s longtime assistant
- Gary Farro, Michael Cohen’s ex-banker who helped him as he created an account to pay hush money
- Robert Browning, C-SPAN archives executive director who verified the authenticity of various videos of Trump’s speeches
- Phillip Thompson, regional director at Esquire Deposition Solutions who verified the authenticity of a Trump deposition transcript in a recent civil case
- Keith Davidson, attorney who previously represented two women paid hush money in 2016
- Doug Daus, Manhattan DA senior forensic analyst who analyzed Michael Cohen’s cellphones
- Georgia Longstreet, Manhattan DA paralegal who reviewed Trump’s social media posts; she testified twice during the trial
- Hope Hicks, Trump’s 2016 campaign press secretary
- Jeffrey McConney, ex-Trump Organization controller who helped process the allegedly falsified records
- Deb Tarasoff, Trump Organization bookkeeper who helped process the allegedly falsified records
- Sally Franklin, custodian of records at Random House who introduced excerpts of Trump’s books into evidence
- Stormy Daniels, porn star who received the $130,000 hush payment at the center of the case
- Rebecca Manochio, Trump Organization employee who helped ship checks to Trump for him to sign that make up part of his charges
- Tracey Menzies, custodian of records at HarperCollins who introduced excerpts from another of Trump’s books
- Madeleine Westerhout, Trump’s White House secretary who confirmed details about Trump signing the checks that partially make up his charges
- Doug Dixon, custodian of records at AT&T who introduced Michael Cohen’s phone records into evidence
- Jennie Tomalin, custodian of records at Verizon who introduced phone records from people involved in the case
- Jaden Jarmel-Schneider, Manhattan DA paralegal who analyzed Michael Cohen’s phones
- Michael Cohen, Trump’s ex-fixer who made the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels
Defense witnesses
- Danny Sitko, paralegal who works for Trump’s lead defense attorney and introduced various phone records
- Robert Costello, lawyer who advised Michael Cohen as federal prosecutors criminally investigated Cohen
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