Stormy Daniels is scheduled to return to the stand today for a second day of testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money criminal trial, where she is expected to resume her grueling trial against her lawyers.
During a heated cross-examination Tuesday afternoon, porn star Daniels, 45, made shocking statements. She admitted that she hates Trump..
Attorney Susan Necheres then “extorted” a fee from the 77-year-old former president before the 2016 election to bury her story that she had a sexual relationship with him years earlier. accused of doing so.
“Are you trying to extort money from President Trump?” Necheres asked Daniels.
“Incorrect,” Daniels replied.
“Well, that’s what you did, right?” Necheres exclaimed.
“Wrong!” Daniels yelled back.
Daniels testified that her primary motive for coming forward about her secret meeting with a married Trump in 2006 was not money, but rather to “get the word out.”
She used to sell her dating stories to the next person. Gossip magazine “In Touch” It was published in 2011 for $15,000, but was refused print at the time.
Daniels also testified in painstaking detail about an alleged sexual encounter she had with Trump after he invited her to his hotel suite at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California. did.
She told jurors how she hit Trump with a rolled-up magazine with his face on the cover, eliciting smiles from at least two of the panelists, and said she was worried about Trump’s wife, Melania. I explained that I told her not to do it.
“He said, ‘Don’t worry about that, we’re not even sleeping in the same room,'” she testified.
Daniels also testified that her sexual dalliance with Trump was “brief” and that she was concerned that the then-real estate mogul and reality TV host wasn’t wearing a condom. He testified that he did so.
It is unclear to what extent Mr. Trump’s lawyers will pursue Mr. Daniels over the dating allegations, which Mr. Trump denies.
If they ask too much, legal analysts say, it would legally “open the door” for prosecutors to ask Daniels to share more information about that night. It is said that there is a possibility that it will become.
Trump is accused of having his personal attorney Michael Cohen make payments to Daniels in order to “corrupt” the 2016 election and then attempting to conceal them by falsifying entries in his business records throughout 2017. has been indicted for.
President Trump has maintained his innocence and denounced the incident as politically motivated.
