It shows a pattern of behavior relevant to the charges.
IRRC, the New York criminal trial is about 34 counts of falsifying business records. What is on the tape to establish a pattern of behavior involving falsifying business records? I thought they wanted to use the comment about "grab 'em by the" privates.
There is a deluge of comments about hush money, but Trump and Daniels entered into a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Stormy Daniels gave a signed statement of January 30, 2018, denying any affair happened. She took the money and subsequently recanted. She sued Trump for defamation over his charge that the alleged event was a "total con job." She lost.
The pattern is a history of philandering and the desire to keep it quiet for the purposes of winning an election,
He didn’t mind the stories coming out before he ran for office.
It's just who he is on FR.