Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump’s lawyers go after adult film star Stormy Daniels during cross-examination in a New York business records trial. He said he had made a big mistake.
While discussing questions from defense attorney Susan Necheles in court today, host Joy Reid said, “This kind of ego-stroking Trump, attacking Stormy Daniels because Trump can’t do it.” It doesn’t seem to be a problem for me to do that.” defense. “
Butler said, “This is a performance for our client. So it’s the defense’s job to attack the credibility of the prosecution’s witnesses. And there was, in fact, the baggage that Stormy Daniels had. She He lost a defamation lawsuit with Trump and said he would rather go to jail than pay him a dime.But that wasn’t what the defenders were focused on when he crossed the aisle. Acted as if she were a falling woman, as if this were a Mississippi court case in the 1950s.
He added: “There was a component of this class. They treated her like she was trash. In stark contrast to Hope Hicks last week, this former Vanity Fair model wasn’t treated the same way. They actually treated her with kid gloves. So I don’t think classism or sexism will hold up on a jury in 2024. Masu.”
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