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Trump’s attorney accuses Daniels of trying to profit from her story
Hugo Lowell
Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, is doubling down on the suggested line of questioning Stormy Daniels motivated by money to tell her story, as part of the defense’s argument that Daniels was essentially extorting Trump.
Daniels had previously said on Tuesday that he was not involved in the money. But just now, Trump’s team played a recording of his lawyer Keith Davidson saying Michael Cohen that Daniels screamed at her, called him a “pussy”, and told him “he better sell this goddamn story” before the 2016 election or they would lose all leverage.
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Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, tries to question Stormy Daniels‘ the credibility of her account with Donald Trump, asking:
Your story has changed completely hasn’t it?
Daniels replied:
No nothing at all. You try to make him say he has changed but he hasn’t.
Trump attorney Susan Necheles returns again to the 2011 InTouch interview where Stormy Daniels describe having sex with Donald Trump. The InTouch story says:
When I came out, he was sitting on the bed and he was like, ‘Come here.’ And I was like, ‘Ugh, here we go.’ And we started kissing. I don’t even know why I did but I remember while we were having sex, I was like, ‘Don’t try to pay me.’ And then I remember thinking, ‘But I bet if he did, it would be a lot.’
In court, Daniels says she was caught more off guard and couldn’t remember the details of when they had sex.
Daniels says she was shocked to see Trump in his boxers
Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, suggests that is not credible Stormy Daniels was caught off guard when she came out of the bathroom and saw Trump in a T-shirt and boxer shorts.
Daniels has acted in more than 150 porn films, Necheles noted, and was used to men making passes at her.
Daniels says it was disheartening to see an older man in a T-shirt and boxers when she wasn’t expecting it.
On Tuesday, Daniels testified that she went to use the bathroom during her meeting with Trump in his Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2006. When she left the bathroom, Trump – on the bed, covered in boxer shorts and T shirt, she said.
“At first I was shocked, like a jump scare,” Daniels told jurors earlier this week.
I just thought: oh my God, what did I misread to get here? The intent is pretty clear if someone strips down to their underwear and onto the bed.
Trump attorney Susan Necheles weighs in Stormy Daniels on the various accounts of over the years of her encounter with Donald Trump.
Daniels denies that her story has changed, saying that the 2011 InTouch magazine interview was “short on details” as it was an entertainment magazine.
Necheles moves on to ask about Daniels’ 2018 interview with Anderson Cooper, and asks if she had lunch with Trump in the room.
Daniels testifies that “we had lunch in the room” but that they did not eat any food.
Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles continues to chase discrepancies in Stormy Daniels‘ a story.
She has said that she did not eat the night he had sex with her Donald Trump. But in an InTouch magazine interview in 2011 he said:
In the end we had dinner in the room. I can’t remember what we ordered.
Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles continues to make holes in Stormy Daniels’ credibility.
After walking through all the ways she has benefited from her story, she now tries to find inconsistencies in Daniels’ stories about what happened with Donald Trump over the years.
She points to a 2011 story in InTouch magazine that suggests Daniels said Trump himself asked for her phone number. Daniels testified that it was so Keith Schiller, Trump’s bodyguard, who asked for her number.
Daniels testifies sexual encounter with Trump was ‘very real’
Trump’s attorney Susan Necheles now walking through Stormy Daniels‘ history in pornography. Necheles says:
You have a lot of experience making fake stories about sex seem real.
Daniels replied:
The sex in the movies is very real, just like what happened to me in that room.
Daniels, addressing the suggestion that she made up the story with Trump, said:
If that story were untrue I would have written it to be much better.
Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles seeks discredit Stormy Daniels by implying that she is not completely sane because of her paranormal beliefs and her work as a medium.
Necheles asks about Daniels’ belief that her house in New Orleans is haunted and that ghosts attacked her boyfriend.
Necheles says:
You’ve been making money off your claim that you can talk to the dead?
Daniels says many of his fans like to call in and read tarot calls together.
Daniels says she lived in a house with “interesting and inexplicable activity”, much of which was “totally destroyed by a giant possum living under the house”.
Stormy Daniels was asked about tweets in which he celebrated Donald Trump be indicted, including the following:
Thank you everyone for your support and love! I have so many messages coming in that I can’t reply…also don’t want to spill my champagne 😜 #Teamstormus girl/autograph orders are pouring in too! Thanks for that too but please allow a few extra days for shipping.
— Stormy Daniels (@StormyDaniels) March 30, 2023
Daniels testifies about calling Trump an ‘orange turd’
Stormy Daniels is being questioned about a tweet in which he called Donald Trump “the orange turd” in response to someone attacking her.
Daniels says:
I’m pretty sure this is hyperbole – if someone calls me a toilet then I can say I can flush an orange turd down.
Daniels adds:
I’m not a toilet either. I mean I am not a human toilet. If they want to make fun of me then I can make fun of them.
Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, walks Stormy Daniels through all the business opportunities she has had since she went public in her affair with them Donald Trump: a book, an appearance on a reality TV show, and a documentary.
Asked by Necheles if Daniels has “become a hero” to Trump haters, Daniels replied: “Yes.”
Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, said Stormy Daniels She decided she wanted to say publicly that she had had sex Donald Trump after signing two statements denying it in 2018.
Daniels says:
No, no one would ever want to say that in public.
Trump’s attorney accuses Daniels of trying to profit from her story
Hugo Lowell
Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, is doubling down on the suggested line of questioning Stormy Daniels motivated by money to tell her story, as part of the defense’s argument that Daniels was essentially extorting Trump.
Daniels had previously said on Tuesday that he was not involved in the money. But just now, Trump’s team played a recording of his lawyer Keith Davidson saying Michael Cohen that Daniels screamed at her, called him a “pussy”, and told him “he better sell this goddamn story” before the 2016 election or they would lose all leverage.
