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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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The testimony firmly puts #StormyDaniels in #Trump’s orbit during a sustained period of time.
Trump has continued to motion to his lawyer #Necheles, who likely will be handling the cross-examination & has been taking notes throughout Daniels's testimony.
Daniels is now talking about an article posted on the website TheDirty in 2011 about her encounter w/Trump. The jurors have already heard from other witnesses about this article, which Daniels said she wanted taken down.
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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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 moves on to socialmedia posts that #StormyDaniels made about wanting #Trump to be imprisoned, incl one saying that she would “dance down the street” if he was selected to go to jail.
Daniels says “selected” was the wrong word because she knows a person is not selected to go to jail.
Necheles asks Daniels: “Am I correct that you hate President Trump?”
Daniels: “Yes.”
Necheles: “And you want him to go to jail?”
Daniels responds: “I want him to be held accountable.”
#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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#Necheles is trying to make #StormyDaniels look like a liar. But many of her questions have to do w/money & Daniels is making it clear that she is not wealthy. So instead of this line of questioning working to impeach her #credibility, as intended, it’s coming off as a lawyer for a very rich person going after someone w/ less money for having less money.
Yes #Trump has exaggerated his wealth for the years, but he still has more money than the vast majority of the country.
#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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The question of whether #StormyDaniels was threatened has come up before. #KeithDavidson, cast some doubt on the story as he read his texts w/ #MichaelCohen.
#Necheles has hardly asked about the actual case — whether there was a #conspiracy to cover up a #HushMoney payment made before an election, & if business records were falsified in the process. Instead she has focused on whether Daniels embellished her story about being threatened in Vegas by someone connected to #Trump.
#StormyDaniels is expected to be the second witness today.
#Trump's lawyer #Necheles, begins by objecting to Daniels testifying, including “any details” of any “sexual act.”
Susan Hoffinger, a prosecutor, is arguing that these details are key to the case — & that this issue has already been settled. She says that details that are too salacious will not be admitted, but that the story is “significant” & important to prosecutors in terms of Daniels’s credibility.
Back to court
#Trump did not answer reporters’s questions about his morning Truth Social post.
One of Trump's lawyers, Susan #Necheles, appears to be taking her seat to Trump’s right— suggesting she will be the one to cross-examine #StormyDaniels.
Show’s about to start, doubt Trump will be sleeping today.
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FYI #Necheles, defended #TrumpOrganization in a #criminal #tax #law #case 2 yrs ago.
#Bove questioned #KeithDavidson if Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler, offered to indemnify #StormyDaniels from liability she incurred relating to the #HushMoney deal.
Davidson said that Flynt offered, but Daniels did not accept.
Bove then questioned Davidson if #MichaelCohen secretly taped people. Davidson acknowledged he believed Cohen taped him at certain times.