NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s subpoena to Comcast-owned NBCUniversal for materials associated to a current documentary about porn star Stormy Daniels was blocked on Friday by the decide overseeing the previous U.S. president’s April 15 felony trial.
Justice Juan Merchan stated Trump’s declare that Daniels and NBC conspired to launch the movie near the trial to wreck him was unsupported.
“His subpoena and the calls for therein are the very definition of a fishing expedition,” the decide wrote in a court docket order.
Trump is accused of overlaying up his former lawyer Michael Cohen’s $130,000 fee to Daniels for her silence earlier than the 2016 election a few sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006.
The Republican presidential candidate has pleaded not responsible to 34 counts of falsifying enterprise information and denies any such encounter with Daniels, whose actual identify is Stephanie Clifford.
The documentary, “Stormy,” was launched on NBC’s streaming service Peacock in March.