Former President Donald Trump’s protection on Thursday seemingly labored to paint the image that porn actress Stormy Daniels tried to financially profit from his wealth and fame, in accordance to stories.
Daily Caller courts reporter Katelynn Richardson noted that in the course of the protection’s cross-examination of the porn star, who practically blew the trial for the prosecution on Tuesday, Trump lawyer Susan Necheles was “pushing to show Daniels was motivated by money when she entered into her 2016 NDA [non-disclosure agreement].”
Daniels notes she did the 2018 Anderson Cooper interview at no cost.
Necheles: After the interview, you negotiated a ebook contract for $800,000?
Daniels: Yes— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) May 9, 2024
“She suggests Daniels stopped talking to a Slate reporter interested in the story because she wanted to be paid,” Richardson famous.
While Daniels emphasised throughout her questioning that she was not compensated for an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in 2018, Necheles stated the porn star landed an almost seven-figure ebook deal after the interview, in accordance to Richardson.
Stormy Daniels testifies in Manhattan legal court docket on May 7, 2024, in New York, (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
Daniels answered within the affirmative.
In one other change, Necheles requested Daniels about merchandise she hawked after Trump was indicted, because the New York Times and Richardson noted. These gadgets included shirts, per the Times, a “Stormy Daniels Political Power” comedian ebook, and a “Stormy Saint of Indictments” candle, which had been proven to the jury.
Necheles takes a detour and asks Daniels about creating wealth from claiming to have the power to converse to the lifeless. She strikes on.
Necheles: You have numerous expertise making phony tales about intercourse seem to be actual?
Daniels: Wow. That’s not how I might put it.— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) May 9, 2024
Per the Times’ Jesse McKinley, the candle featured “Daniels draped in a Christ-like robe.”
WATCH — CNN’s Honig: Cross Examination of Stormy Daniels Was “Disastrous”:
At one level in the course of the cross-examination, Necheles grilled Daniels over her “Make America Horny Again” strip membership tour, saying she profited from it, as Richardson reported.
Necheles continues to level out she made cash from a strip membership tour known as ‘Make America Horny Again’ and her documentary.
Daniels says she hated the identify of the tour.
— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) May 9, 2024
As the Hill noted:
Daniels stated she “never used” that tagline for her tour, saying she “hated” the identify. When requested if she was advertising and marketing herself to those that hate Trump, she stated she was not making an attempt to promote herself to anybody.
The tour had taken place at golf equipment in 2018, after Trump had assumed workplace. Daniels maintained that she was simply doing the “same job” she had been doing since 2001.
Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsification of enterprise data on this case, pursued by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
The case is New York v. Trump, No. 71543-23, within the New York Supreme Court for New York County.
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