With cameras absent, U.S. public tunes out of Trump trial coverage

WASHINGTON — It ought to have been appointment TV as Stormy Daniels served up salacious details of her alleged tryst with Donald Trump in the sensational first-ever prosecution of a former president.

Yet with New York state rules walling off the Republican billionaire's hush money trial from the world's television cameras, what should have been the trial of the century has turned into something of a ratings flop.