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   NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving   
   Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar   
   in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to   
   be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused   
   to take it and walked away.   
      
   A process server working for Trump’s lawyers said he approached   
   Daniels with papers demanding information related to a   
   documentary recently released about her life and involvement   
   with Trump, but was forced to “leave them at her feet,”   
   according to a court filing made public Wednesday.   
      
   “I stated she was served as I identified her and explained to   
   her what the documents were,” process server Dominic DellaPorte   
   wrote. “She did not acknowledge me and kept walking inside the   
   venue, and she had no expression on her face.”   
      
   The encounter, prior to a screening of the “Stormy” film at the   
   3 Dollar Bill nightclub, has touched off a monthlong battle   
   between Trump’s lawyers and Daniels’ attorney that continued   
   this week as the presumptive Republican nominee’s criminal trial   
   began in Manhattan.   
      
   Trump’s lawyers are asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to force   
   Daniels to comply with the subpoena. In their filing, they   
   included a photo they said DellaPorte took of Daniels as she   
   strode away.   
      
   Daniels’ lawyer Clark Brewster claims they never received the   
   paperwork. He described the requests as an “unwarranted fishing   
   expedition” with no relevance to Trump’s criminal trial.   
      
   “The process — instituted on the eve of trial — appears   
   calculated to cause harassment and/or intimidation of a lay   
   witness,” Brewster wrote in an April 9 letter to Merchan.   
   Brewster didn’t immediately reply to a message from The   
   Associated Press seeking comment.   
      
   The hush money case is the first of Trump’s four criminal cases   
   to go to trial. Seven jurors have been seated so far. Jury   
   selection is set to resume Thursday.   
      
   Daniels is expected to testify about a $130,000 payment she got   
   in 2016 from one of Trump’s lawyers at the time, Michael Cohen,   
   in order to stop her from speaking publicly about a sexual   
   encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier.   
      
   Cohen was later reimbursed by Trump’s company for that payment.   
   Trump is accused of falsifying his company’s records to hide the   
   nature of that payment, and other work he did to bury negative   
   stories during the 2016 campaign.   
      
   Trump pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of   
   falsifying business records. He denies having a sexual encounter   
   with Daniels. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were   
   legitimate legal expenses, and were recorded correctly.   
      
   In a separate filing made public Wednesday, the Manhattan   
   district attorney’s office said that if Trump chooses to testify   
   at the trial, prosecutors plan to challenge his credibility by   
   questioning him about his recent legal setbacks. The filing was   
   made last month under seal.   
      
   Trump was recently ordered to pay a $454 million civil penalty   
   following a trial in which a judge ruled he had lied about his   
   wealth on financial statements. In another trial, a jury said he   
   was liable for $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll   
   after she accused him of sexual assault.   
      
   Merchan said he plans to hold a hearing Friday to decide whether   
   that will be allowed.   
      
   Under New York law, prosecutors can question witnesses about   
   past legal matters in certain circumstances. Trump’s lawyers are   
   opposed. Trump has said he wants to testify, but he is not   
   required to and can always change his mind.   
      
   As for the subpoena dispute, it marks the latest attempt by   
   Trump’s lawyers to knock loose potentially damaging information   
   about Daniels, a key prosecution witness.   
      
   They are demanding an array of documents related to the   
   promotion and editing of the documentary, “Stormy,” which   
   explores Daniels’ career in the adult film industry and rise to   
   celebrity since her alleged involvement with Trump became   
   publicly known.   
      
   They are also requesting Daniels reveal how much, if anything,   
   she was compensated for the film.   
      
   Trump’s lawyers contend the film’s premiere last month on NBC’s   
   Peacock streaming service — a week before the trial was   
   originally scheduled to start — stoked negative publicity about   
      
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