Adult film star Stormy Daniels Stormy Daniels trolled former President Trump and his legal team after testifying in a hush money trial in New York on Thursday.
“A real man responds by standing in court under oath and testifying. Oh, wait a minute. Never mind,” Daniels said Thursday. post on social media platform X.
Daniels’ swipe came after Trump and his legal team filed complaints about her testimony on Tuesday and Thursday.
On Thursday, the former president’s team sought to amend Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order to allow for Daniels’ testimony. They argued that now that she had finished her testimony, she could no longer be threatened.
Her lawyers also sought to have a mistrial declared, arguing that her testimony revealed too much about her alleged sexual encounter with the former president in 2006.
Mr Marchand rejected both attempts.
Daniels’ attack on Trump on X also clearly hinted that he might take a stand in the lawsuit and counter her claims.
Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheres, the only woman on the case’s defense team, said she could paint Daniels as an unreliable witness and argue that she altered her story about the alleged contact, which could have jeopardized the jury’s opinion. attempted to undermine Mr. Daniels’ credibility. Mr. Necheres also went after Mr. Daniels, accusing him of benefitting from her allegations of an affair with the former president.
Mr. Trump faces 34 felonies for falsifying business records in the New York case, which includes payments made by former fixer Michael Cohen to Mr. Daniels in the final stages of the 2016 presidential campaign to keep him quiet about allegations of an affair. He is accused of illegally concealing the information.
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