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Read the court transcripts from Trump’s N.Y. hush money trial

Access the daily court transcripts from former president Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, including testimony from David Pecker and Stormy Daniels.

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Updated May 31, 2024 at 5:45 p.m. EDT|Published May 8, 2024 at 1:23 p.m. EDT
Justice Juan Merchan warns former president Donald Trump that further violations of a gag order could land him in jail during Trump's criminal trial in New York on May 6. (Jane Rosenberg/Reuters)
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After jury selection in Donald Trump’s historic records-falsification trial, the New York state court system began posting daily transcripts of the trial proceedings on its website.

The trial transcripts were produced quickly and may contain typos or small errors. The Washington Post regularly downloaded the images of each page, combined them into searchable PDFs and linked to them below. (In instances in which the court has later posted a PDF of a given day’s proceedings, The Post has published those files.)

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May 30, 2024: Second day of jury deliberations; verdict is read

May 29, 2024: First day of jury deliberations

May 28, 2024: Closing arguments

May 21, 2024: Defense rests

May 20, 2024: Prosecution rests

May 16, 2024: Michael Cohen testimony

May 14, 2024: Michael Cohen testimony

May 13, 2024: Michael Cohen testimony

May 10, 2024: Trump’s former White House assistant’s testimony

May 9, 2024: Stormy Daniels testimony

May 7, 2024: Stormy Daniels testimony

May 6, 2024: Judge again finds Trump in contempt; Trump Organization employees testify

May 3, 2024: Hope Hicks testimony (Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this page included the wrong transcript for the May 3 trial date. The entry has been updated with the correct transcript.)

May 2, 2024: Stormy Daniels’s lawyer’s testimony

April 30, 2024: Trump found in contempt; Stormy Daniels’s lawyer testifies

April 26, 2024: David Pecker and Rhona Graff testimony

April 25, 2024: David Pecker testimony

April 23, 2024: David Pecker testimony

April 22, 2024: Opening statements

Trump New York hush money case

Donald Trump is the first former president convicted of a crime. Follow live updates.

Can Trump still run for president? Yes. He is eligible to campaign and serve as president if elected. Here’s everything to know about next steps, what this means for his candidacy and the other outstanding trials he faces.

What happens next? Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for July 11. He faces up to four years in prison, but legal experts say incarceration appears unlikely. Trump has 30 days to file notice of an appeal of the verdict and six months to file the full appeal.

Reaction to the verdict: Trump continued to maintain his innocence, railing against what he called a “rigged, disgraceful trial” and emphasizing voters would deliver the real verdict on Election Day.

The charges: Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Falsifying business records is a felony in New York when there is an “intent to defraud” that includes an intent to “commit another crime or to aid or conceal” another crime.