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#Necheles, is seeking to attack #StormyDaniels's overall credibility. But Daniels told a very detailed story earlier about the not exactly consensual sexual encounter w/ #Trump, we’ll see how the #jurors process these attacks. It may very well backfire on the Trump team.
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Justice #Merchan admonished #StormyDaniels for going off topic & told her to “just answer the questions,” a notable sign of disapproval.
Merchan sustains a defense objection. Susan Hoffinger, the prosecutor, objects, saying that Daniels’s answer was directly responsive to her question. Then, the judge again scolds Daniels, telling her again to keep her answers short & to the point. He then reverses himself & overrules the objection.
Justice #Merchan has repeatedly asked for tighter answers & fewer extraneous details. The judge is sustaining most objections lodged by the defense.
Merchan's visible disapproval may be bad news for the prosecution. #Jurors often take their cues from judges. If the judge seems impatient with a witness, jurors could receive it almost as permission to feel the same way.
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#StormyDaniels is asked about being threatened in a parking lot by someone while in Vegas w/her daughter. Her voice shakes as she talks, & explains she didn’t report it bc it would have been upsetting to the person she was in a relationship w/at the time.
She never told some of the people who worked closely w/her on the #HushMoney deal about the incident. She revealed it in a "60 Minutes" interview in 2018, after hiring her now-jailed fmr lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
For context, when this issue came up in 2011, #Trump was beginning to talk about running for president in the 2012 #Republican primary. He had been promoting the #birtherism #ConspiracyTheory lie about President #Obama’s, suggesting Obama was an illegitimate president, & was gaining traction in polls [w/ #WhiteSupremacists] as he did.
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#StormyDaniels is testifying that she was not motivated by money, & says she didn’t negotiate the #HushMoney deal because she didn’t care about the figure.
Daniels is asked whether the story she’s told here today about her encounter w/ #Trump is one she would have described to news outlets had she been interviewed then. But the defense objects to the question & the judge sustains it again — Daniels does not answer.
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Susan #Necheles, the #Trump defense lawyer, has lodged objection after objection. Objections are meant to either cut off testimony or have it stricken from the official record. Her rate of success today has been way higher than normal. The judge is accepting her objections & disrupting #StormyDaniels’s testimony.
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The testimony by #StormyDaniels that she did not care about money might be undercut by text messages between her agent at the time, Gina Rodriguez, & the editor of The #NationalEnquirer, w/ the 2 of them bidding back & forth until they got to $120k. The Enquirer’s publisher David #Pecker would not pay saying, “I am not a bank.” Which is how #MichaelCohen ended up taking over the deal.
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#StormyDaniels said that after the resurfacing of the "#AccessHollywood" tape in Oct 2016, she was focused on selling her story & that more people were calling & expressing interest in it.
“Did you have any intention of approaching either Mr. #Trump or #MichaelCohen, his attorney, to have them pay for your story?” prosecutor Susan #Hoffinger asked.
Daniels said no, her motivation wasn't money. She just wanted to get her story out publicly.
right here is why:
#Trump team moves for a #mistrial based on #StormyDaniels #testimony.
"Testimony was so unduly prejudicial to Trump & the charges in this case..."
Trump atty #Blanche argues that the testimony was overly #prejudicial, & that the State was asking questions “to inflame this jury,” in addition to the “pure embarrassment” factor. He says there’s no way the court can instruct the #jury in a way to “unring this bell.”
It would be a surprise for Justice #Merchan to agree to a #mistrial. But he also exhibited displeasure w/how the testimony was going several times, sustaining multiple objections.
It’s not #StormyDaniels’ fault or prosecutors fault that this was a salacious event, it’s just what happened & goes directly to motive for hiding it.
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The jury is not present for these procedural motion hearings. It would be better if they knew Justice Merchan’s ruling & admonition to #Trump #legal team. given that they were present when #Merchan admonished #StormyDaniels & prosecution during the morning #testimony.
Merchan reminds the defense that “the remedy is on cross-examination,” meaning that the defense will be able to make its own case as it questions Daniels.
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Justice #Merchan says that, w/the consent of the defense lawyers, Susan #Hoffinger, the prosecutor, has stepped out to confer w/ #StormyDaniels about keeping her #testimony within the confines set by the judge, & avoiding any “unnecessary” details. [to avoid a fricking mistrial ffs]
Note, when the judge in Trump’s civil fraud trial denied a mistrial, #Trump stormed out of the room.
We could see a #GagOrder violation today if he follows his typical behavior.
#StormyDaniels is back on the stand, jury has returned, trial resumes.
Prosecutors question Daniels regarding the delayed payments from #Trump.
Jurors are re-shown an email from #KeithDavidson to #MichaelCohen:
“Please be advised that my client deems her Settlement Agreement cancelled."
Daniels confirms she signed another days later as Stephanie Clifford.
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#StormyDaniels, referring to a #WSJ article that mentioned her while discussing another #HushMoney deal, says she did not comment for the article, honoring the terms of the deal she had reached through her lawyer, #KeithDavidson.
She’s keeping her answers short & to the point.
She testified that her lawyer, #KeithDavidson, received $130k. After he & her manager took fees, she ended up w/about $96k, she says.
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#StormyDaniels testifies that she didn't comment on the WSJ article because of the #NDA.
Prosecutor: "Were you happy just to stay quiet and not say anything"
Daniels: Absolutely.
Daniels says she refused to appear on Fox to deny the affair when #Trump / #MichaelCohen asked her to because, "I didn't want to."
When she planned her appearance on Kimmel, Davidson gave her a statement to sign, it was false.
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#StormyDaniels testifies that her lawyer, Michael #Avenatti, filed a #defamation claim against #Trump against her wishes. She says she wished he had not done so because she felt it was too risky. (Avenatti, a risk-taker by nature, was sentenced to prison in 2022 for stealing from Daniels.)
Per Jonathon Swan: As Daniels was testifying about her defamation claim against Trump, the former president appeared for a while to be solidly asleep. #NodFarter
#StormyDaniels testifies that she hired Michael #Avenatti after hearing #MichaelCohen talk about the story in public which was upsetting, “because he could talk about it & I couldn’t.”
She then testifies that Cohen filed a temporary restraining order against her, seeking to keep her from speaking.
Daniels says she hired Avenatti to “speak up" for herself, appeared on CNN to get her story out.
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After the #NDA ended, #StormyDaniels wrote her book, "Full Disclosure” because, she says, she wanted her daughter to know why she had done the things she had.
A #Trump post on Truth Social, in which he called Daniels “horseface,” is displayed on the courtroom screens. It’s from March 2023, when the Manhattan DA was preparing to indict Trump in this case. Daniels is now reading the Truth post aloud.
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#Trump has long denied #StormyDaniels’s story.
The jury is being asked to weigh his words against hers,
Right now, she is reading aloud the insults Trump uses for her, including “horseface” & “sleaze bag.”
She says the post is false.
Hoffinger, the prosecutor, asks Daniels who she understands Trump to have been calling “horseface.”
Daniels: “Me,” she replies. The same goes for “sleaze bag,” which he also called her in the post.
In #Trump’s social media post, he says he hasn’t seen her since the golf tournament she described earlier & denies having had sex w/her.
#Jurors heard last week from Trump’s former executive assistant, #RhonaGraff, that #StormyDaniels visited Trump Tower in 2007, the year after the golf course event.
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Direct examination is over; next is cross-examination by #Trump atty Susan #Necheles.
Necheles is pushing #StormyDaniels on her testimony about the money. She says that Daniels went into pornography for money, & asks her, again, “You wanted more money, right?”
Daniels retorted: “Don’t we all want to make more money in our jobs?”
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#Necheles continues to push #StormyDaniels on money, bringing up that she previously tweeted that she would not pay #Trump “a penny” even after a federal court ordered her to cover his legal fees as a result of a failed defamation lawsuit. A lawyer for Daniels has said that she does not, in fact, owe him any money.
Jurors finances are likely closer to Daniels's than Trump’s, this may be an argument they are unresponsive to.
Importantly, this cross-examination isn’t addressing the evidence, it’s just an attack on #StormyDaniels’ credibility.
In a “your mama’s so fat” moment, when #Necheles gets Daniels to acknowledge she had mocked #Trump’s looks on Twitter, Daniels replies, “Because he made fun of me first.”
Necheles says that one of them started it, but “you both continued it.”
(One of these people was the president of the United States)
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#StormyDaniels knocked back Necheles’s implication that Daniels wants Trump to be convicted so she doesn’t have to pay his legal fees from the defamation case. “I hope I don't have to pay him no matter what happens,” Daniels said.
Necheles moves on, saying that telling her story about having had sex w/ Trump has made Stormy Daniels a lot of money. Daniels again hits back: “It has also cost me a lot of money.”
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#Necheles tries something else, asking whether #StormyDaniels had talked to the lawyer #GloriaAllred about potentially suing #Trump.
Again, Daniels fires back, saying that she also told Allred, “I had sex with Donald Trump.”
[Allred is a prominent women’s rights lawyer — often representing survivors of sexual harassment or assault by powerful men.]
Daniels hasn’t been fased by any of these questions.
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#Necheles is still trying to make #StormyDaniels look like a liar by bringing up her book excerpts, making it seem as if she has changed her story of having had sex w/ #Trump.
Daniels continues fighting back & providing more context.
The jurors are paying close attention and the courtroom is, to use the word of the day, tense.
Necheles does get Daniels to say that one thing she described in the book was incorrect, but sticks to other parts of her story.
#Necheles, pushing #StormyDaniels about the threat she says she encountered in the Vegas parking lot, challenged her about not telling her baby’s father implying she made it up.
Necheles: “Your daughter’s life was in jeopardy & you did not tell her father — but you went on Anderson Cooper & decided to tell the world?”
Again attacking Daniels' character & credibility.
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#StormyDaniels testified that #Trump did NOT ask her to keep their sexual encounter confidential.
“He didn’t give me anything, he didn’t offer to pay me or give me his cell phone number or anything like that," Daniels said.
Daniels went on to say that Trump also did not express any concern about his wife finding out.
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#StormyDaniels describes herself being traumatized by the encounter: shaking, bewildered, wondering “how I got” to the place of having sex w/ #Trump. But she says she didn’t say no, “because I didn’t say anything at all.”
Daniels says that while she didn't object in the moment, she also didn’t enjoy it, & that she felt there was an “imbalance” in the power dynamic between the two.
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Prosecutor #Hoffinger asked #StormyDaniels if #Trump was wearing a condom.
Daniels: “No.”
Asked if that was concerning to her, Daniels said, “yes,” but she did not say anything about it to Trump, & that the sex itself was brief.
Daniels said that after she had sex w/Trump, he said to her, "Oh it was great, let’s get together again honey bunch.”
"I just left as fast as I could," she testified.
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Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked #StormyDaniels, "Did you end up on the bed having sex with him?"
"Yes," she said, adding, “The next thing I know, I was on the bed, somehow on the opposite side of the bed from where we had been standing. I had my clothes & my shoes off," she said.
The prosecution asked Daniels if she felt anything "unusual" while having sex w/ #Trump. The defense objected & the objection was sustained.
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The defense has been objecting to many questions & Justice #Merchan has been sustaining a lot of them. He is not happy about this testimony.
Despite being explicit this is RELEVANT testimony, given that this encounter is at the heart of the prosecution's case.
But it may be a risk for prosecutors depending on what jurors make of it.
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#Hoffinger, the prosecutor, is now asking #StormyDaniels about having had sex w/ #Trump. “Did you at some point end up on the bed having sex with him?” Hoffinger asks. Daniels says yes. When she describes the position they were in [missionary], the defense objects, & the objection is sustained.
The defense has been objecting to many questions & the judge has been sustaining a lot of them. He is not happy about this testimony.
#StormyDaniels says she came out of the bathroom & found that #Trump was in the bedroom, waiting for her, in his boxer shorts & a T-shirt. She had been planning to go, she said. He was seated on the bed, between her & the exit.
Justice #Merchan is noticeably upset, & Daniels seems confused, after some objections, about what to answer from prosecutors. We are in an intense, intense moment here.
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#StormyDaniels is talking about going to the bathroom in Trump’s hotel suite.
She says she’d been there a while & had drank several bottles of water.
Daniels says #Trump directed her there via the bedroom, the bed was unmade.
She says she remembers seeing a “leather-looking” toiletry bag on the counter w/ Old Spice & “manicure stuff” that was gold.
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#StormyDaniels says that it was #Trump himself who invited her to come on “The Apprentice,” not the other way around. Daniels is suggesting she wasn’t the one trying to use “The Apprentice” — he was, for sex.
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#StormyDaniels says #Trump said "you remind me of my daughter. she's smart & beautiful & people underestimate her as well.”
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He suggested she appear on "The Apprentice."
Daniels says Trump inquired her about her adult film female coworkers asking,
“Do you hook up off camera, do you sleep with each other off camera...?”
Then he asked her to call a friend.
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#Trump is a germophobe. #StormyDaniels previously said that they had sex w/o a condom. Her testimony about Trump asking how frequently she was tested for STDs — helps explain this.
Daniels says that during the dinner, she asked about his wife. She says he told her not to worry because the 2 did not “even sleep in the same room.” Trump & Melania were married in 2005, the year before this encounter.
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As #StormyDaniels is talking, #Trump whispers to his lawyer. He can’t stand feeling or appearing weak or powerless. But that’s exactly what he is here as Daniels is describing, in extensive detail, an encounter he continues to maintain didn’t happen.
She describes Trump’s suite in Lake Tahoe in minute detail, every aspect down to the color of the tiles.
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