Trump trial live updates: Stormy Daniels grilled by defense on motives for accepting hush money

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Tuesday about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump, prompting Judge Juan Merchan to admonish the prosecution for not doing more to rein in her answers. The judge later chastised the defense after Trump had been cursing and shaking his head during her testimony.

Necheles, for example, didn't question that she went to the suite, that Daniels visited the bathroom, that the foyer looked the way she described, that they discussed any of the topics Daniels testified about when asked by the prosecution. Scott suggested that the hush money trial is an election interference effort by Democrats to silence Trump. The Florida senator echoed Trump’s attacks on Merchan’s daughter, who has worked for a digital fundraising and advertising firm that often works with Democratic politicians — a line of attack that led to Merchan’s decision to

Necheles then pressed Daniels, saying there are naked men and women having sex in those movies, but according to Daniels, seeing a man in a T-shirt and boxers was so offending that she got lightheaded and nearly fainted?“Yes,” Daniels replied, adding that it was Trump, an older, much larger man, sitting on the bed, which she was not expecting, and the circumstances included that his bodyguard was standing outside.

Trump lawyer Susan Necheles then noted that in an interview with the magazine in 2011, Daniels said it was Trump, not his bodyguard Keith Schiller specifically, who asked for her number. In one instance, she asks Daniels about a TV show she filmed about paranormal activity in a New Orleans house. Earlier, Necheles asked Daniels whether she was paid $120,000 for the documentary, but Daniels disputed that number, saying she was paid $100,000 for footage previously filmed, not for sitting for an interview with the documentary producers. She added that some of the money also went toward paying those who filmed parts of the eventual documentary.The defense’s attempts to color Daniels as nutty and slutty is a constant.

The defense just spent considerable time trying to prove that Daniels had a political motive for wanting to out Trump's story, that she was trying to hurt his election bid. But wouldn't that bolster the prosecution's argument that Trump had a motive for wanting to silence her?

 

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