A lawyer was questioned by former President Donald Trump’s defense team in New York on Thursday about his efforts to reach nondisclosure agreements with high-profile figures and whether his work ever amounted to extortion.
Trump’s attorney asked Keith Davidson, who represented two women now entangled in Trump’s hush money case, if he was worried about violating extortion laws when he negotiated payments for his clients.
“You were pretty well-versed in getting right up to the line without committing extortion, right?” Trump attorney Emil Bove asked, according to reports of the court proceedings by CNN.
Davidson responded that he did not understand the question, but when pressed further, he conceded that he “had to be careful” about extortion, a typically illegal practice of threatening people for financial gain.
Bove broached other celebrities, asking if Davidson sought payments from wrestling star
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