The porn actress Stormy Daniels He took the stand again this Thursday in the criminal trial against the former president Donald Trump (2017-2021), this time to be questioned by the Republican candidate’s lawyers, who painted the 45-year-old woman as a liar and motivated by money.
As has been customary in the trial, which began with jury selection four weeks ago, Trump – accused of 34 counts of falsifying business documents to help cover up an extramarital affair with Daniels – spent most of the testimony supporting his chair with his eyes closed or staring at the statements on a monitor in front of him with a frown.
Daniels testified for five hours on Tuesday – there is no trial on Wednesdays – and recounted in a relaxed manner what it was like the night she spent with the mogul in 2006 in the hotel room in which they had an unprotected sexual relationship, a testimony in which She detailed intimacies, such as the satin pajamas with which the politician received her.
Alleged inconsistencies
Unlike Tuesday, the adult film writer and director also faced a much more difficult interrogation today, since the questions were asked Susan Nechelesone of Trump’s lawyers, and not the Prosecutor’s Office.
With his questions, Necheles tried to show Daniels as a person motivated by money, who hates Trump and with little credibility due to the different versions of events he has told over the last decade.
The lawyer questioned numerous inconsistencies by Daniels over the years, for example whether it was Trump or his bodyguard who asked for her phone when they met at a golf tournament; what means of transportation she used to go to her date with the tycoon, and whether or not she had dinner the night she went up to her luxurious hotel room in 2006, when she was 27 years old and he was 59.
As part of a confidentiality agreement – for which he was paid $130,000 during the tycoon’s 2016 election campaign – Daniels denied that affair, but today he said he would have preferred to hold a press conference telling what happened.
Daniels, who today went to the Manhattan Criminal Court with her hair down, horn-rimmed glasses, a greenish dress and a black cardigan, pointed out that money was not the reason why she decided to tell her story, because in 2018 she gave a free interview to CNN.
However, Necheles pointed out that since Daniels told her version, the actress has benefited with at least a million dollars thanks to her book, a documentary, several tours and even merchandising products, such as a $40 candle in the store. who appears as a “saint to blame.”
To which Daniels again pointed out that she has every right to tell “her story,” and that making her affair with Trump public has also cost her “a lot of money,” such as legal expenses or hiring bodyguards.
Attacking Daniels’ credibility
Another task for Necheles today was to underline Daniels’ impartiality, pointing out that the erotic dancer has attacked Trump on her social networks on several occasions by calling him, for example, an “orange turd”; Trump, for her part, has nicknamed her “horse face.”
The lawyer also used Daniels’ passion for paranormal phenomena to attack the witness’s credibility and asked her if she has claimed that her house in New Orleans It is haunted, something that Daniels confirmed by stating that he witnessed “a very interesting and inexplicable activity.”
Necheles highlighted the actress’ imagination to write adult film scripts, to which Daniels sarcastically said that if she had written the script for the sexual encounter with Trump it would have been “much better.”
Trump, for his part, has denied on several occasions having had an extramarital relationship with the actress.
Necheles’ questions to Daniels will continue during today’s session. EFE (I)
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