Adult film star Stormy Daniels wrapped up her testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial on Thursday after spending around seven hours on the witness stand. The defense appeared to try to paint Daniels as a money-grabber who used her story of a sexual relationship with Trump, and the former president’s criminal indictment, to sell […]
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Stormy Daniels payment puts focus on Trump and check-writing as trial testimony resumes
Former President Donald Trump‘s criminal trial will resume Friday in New York City with testimony from his former White House executive assistant — a far friendlier witness than Thursday’s star attraction, adult film actor Stormy Daniels. Madeleine Westerhout began her testimony in Manhattan criminal court Thursday afternoon, after Daniels spent the morning sparring with Trump […]
Stormy Daniels, Echoing Trump’s Style, Pushes Back at Lawyer’s Attacks
NEW YORK — Donald Trump, the onetime president, and Stormy Daniels, the longtime porn actor, despise one another. But when Daniels returned to the witness stand at Trump’s criminal trial Thursday, his lawyers made them sound a lot alike. He wrote more than a dozen self-aggrandizing books; she wrote a tell-all memoir. He mocked her […]
Trump hush-money trial resumes after graphic testimony by Stormy Daniels
The hush-money trial against Donald Trump resumes on Friday at the end of a dramatic week which saw almost two days of testimony from adult film actor Stormy Daniels. Related: Stormy Daniels to continue testimony in Trump’s hush-money trial The relationship between Trump and Daniels is central to origins of the case because Trump’s then […]
More Stormy Daniels testimony, new witnesses and Trump’s office habits
Attorneys for former President Donald Trump sought to pierce Stormy Daniels’ credibility and motive Thursday, casting the adult film actor as someone whose retelling of their alleged sexual encounter was rife with inconsistencies and driven by a desire to harm him. Trump’s lawyer Susan Necheles asked Daniels on the stand in Manhattan criminal court in […]
An angry Trump gathers allies to push against Stormy Daniels
NEW YORK — When Stormy Daniels testified in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial, the former president huffed in his seat. He shook his head at times. His anger was so visible and distracting that the judge asked his lawyers to tell him to cool off. But for all the eye-popping stories about their alleged tryst — […]
Trump lawyer questions Stormy Daniels’ account of sex with Trump
By Luc Cohen and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) –Donald Trump‘s lawyer sought to show inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels‘ various tellings of a 2006 sexual encounter she has said she had with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a […]
After Stormy Daniels wraps testimony, judge denies motions to declare mistrial and loosen Trump’s gag order
When asked by lawyers for former President Donald Trump whether she had made up her story about a sexual affair with the former president, adult film actress Stormy Daniels had an emphatic, one-word answer: “No!” This is Yahoo News’ succinct update on the criminal and civil cases against Trump. Here are the latest developments. 🚨 […]
Stormy Daniels spars with Trump defence lawyer over alleged sexual encounter
Donald Trump’s defence lawyer has accused Stormy Daniels of slowly altering the details of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, trying to persuade jurors that a key prosecution witness in the former president’s hush money trial cannot be believed. “The details of your story keep changing, right?” lawyer Susan Necheles asked at one point. […]
Trump Attorney Tries Slut-Shaming Stormy Daniels, Gets Zingers In Return
Stormy Daniels followed up her first bombshell day of testimony in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial with a second day on the stand Thursday. The adult film star faced harsher questions today, as Trump lawyer Susan Necheles attempted to discredit Daniels’ earlier testimony in cross examination. She met the onslaught with polite and […]
Defense lawyer accuses Stormy Daniels of lying about sexual encounter with Trump
Daniels poses for photos at the Gossip Gentleman club on Long Island in 2018. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) During the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels, who alleges she had sex with Trump in 2006, Trump’s defense team is trying to poke holes in her credibility. Trump attorney Susan Necheles read a January 2018 statement in which Daniels denied […]
Stormy Daniels spars with Trump defence lawyer over cash-for-silence transaction
Donald Trump’s defence lawyers have grilled Stormy Daniels on the transaction at the centre of the former president’s hush money trial, pressing her on why she accepted a 130,000 dollar payment to keep quiet about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump instead of going public. “Why didn’t you do that?” lawyer Susan Necheles asked, wondering […]