Once again, Donald Trump’s ego is getting in the way of his legal defense.

Trump is well-known in legal circles as the client from hell. He regularly demands his lawyers do unreasonable things, refuses to follow their advice, and then blames them when things go wrong. He’s also famous for not paying his bills.

That’s why the opportunity to represent a former president is not the catnip for top-notch legal talent you might expect, and why Trump often has trouble getting decent representation. Nonetheless, unlike in some of his other trials, his defense attorneys in the Stormy Daniels hush money case are, at least so far, doing a credible job and playing the cards they’ve been dealt as well as can be expected.

Unfortunately, one of those cards is a client who is making them do things they’d rather not do – like letting the prosecution put Stormy Daniels on the witness stand.

As explosive as her testimony is, it’s only tangentially relevant to the case the prosecution has to prove. All the prosecution has to show, as far as Daniels is concerned, is that Donald Trump paid her off and then tried to cover it up by creating false business records. Whether Daniels and Trump ever........

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