Taylor Swift Appears in Court for Cross Examinations on Day 2 of Groping Trial
The Taylor Swift groping trial on Tuesday quickly zoomed in on the former Denver country DJ who allegedly grabbed the superstar singer’s bottom during a meet-and-greet before her June 2013 show at the Pepsi Center.
David Mueller, 51 at the time, was a veteran morning-show host, producer and radio professional who’d worked for stations in San Diego, Kansas City and Columbus, Ohio, before joining KYGO’s morning-show team in 2012. Since Swift made her allegations, the white-haired plaintiff, wearing a dark suit and a black tie, his voice occasionally cracking, told the court, “I want to clear my name.”
But in a rapid-fire cross-examination, Swift’s attorney, Douglas Baldridge, painted a darker portrait of Mueller -— of a man who felt disrespected when he had to wait in line with fans rather than the VIP line with his co-workers and employers. When a Swift employee ushered Mueller into a booth for a routine photo shoot, the singer bonded more intensely with his girlfriend, fellow KYGO employee Shannon Melcher. “When she didn’t invite me over to pose for the photograph with her, I considered her cold and stand-offish,” Mueller said, during more than four hours on the witness stand (with testimony continuing in the morning). “She didn’t acknowledge me.”
Swift, who sat silently in U.S. District Court wearing a blue-and-white plaid dress, a long,…
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