Stormy Daniels takes the stand to testify in hush money case


Donald Trump and attorney Susan Necheles. (David Dee Delgado/Pool via Getty Images)

Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles seized on opportunities to try to point out inconsistencies in the narrative delivered by Stormy Daniels.

At one point, Necheles accused Daniels of trying to sell her story to In Touch magazine in 2011 at the same time she was threatening to sue the gossip website TheDirty.com, which had weeks earlier leaked the story of Daniels’s alleged affair with Trump. Necheles implied the two motivations were contradictory.

Trump’s lawyer also pointed out a discrepancy in Daniels’s 2018 book, Full Disclosure.

In the book, Daniels wrote that in 2011 she attended an exercise class after being confronted by a man she said threatened her for speaking about having sex with Trump. On the stand, however, Daniels testified that she didn’t attend the class because she was too shaken, NBC News reported.

Necheles also pointed to the fact that after the alleged confrontation in 2011, Daniels testified, she didn’t tell her then boyfriend out of fear of upsetting him. Yet she chose to share the story publicly in a 2018 interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.

“Your daughter’s life was in jeopardy and you did not tell her father — but you went on Anderson Cooper and decided to tell the world?” Necheles pressed Daniels on the stand, according to CNN.

“Right,” Daniels replied.

Later, Necheles pointed to Daniels’s past claims accusing Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen of hiring the man who threatened her in 2011. According to reporters in the courtroom, Daniels acknowledged that she did suspect Cohen sent the man at the time but has since realized he didn’t.

In the end, Necheles sought to make the point that the only way for Daniels to monetize her story was to speak publicly about having sex with Trump.

“It taught you if you want to make money about President Trump, you better talk about sex,” Necheles asked, according to CNN.

Daniels replied, “No, although that does seem to be the case. Sadly.”



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