Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: NoBody Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.pol-incorrect Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 07:25:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 13:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="85af77f82902ef5866c087b7cafad41f"; logging-data="152175"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lKBeiU1hUEgEVQAjWAMTV/qamfjhSwt0=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:sp2zQqZ1GVAszapy9AXZAbSGTXM= X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240514-2, 5/14/2024), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 Bytes: 3714 On Sun, 12 May 2024 04:30:46 -0400, Ubiquitous wrote: >CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said adult film actress Stormy Daniels >gave “disastrous” responses during her appearance on Tuesday at former >President Donald Trump‘s New York City hush-money trial. > >During a segment on CNN with other legal experts, Honig offered his >take on the testimony, which included Stormy Daniels discussing her >alleged 2006 hotel tryst with Trump that the former president has >denied. While he contended that Daniels was believable when it came to >the sex claim, Honig argued the cross-examination could spell trouble >for prosecutors. > >“The cross-exam, boy, her responses were disastrous. I mean, ‘Do you >hate Donald Trump?’ ‘Yes.’ Of course she does. That’s a big deal. When >the witness hates the person whose liberty is at stake? That’s a big >damn deal.” > >https://youtu.be/mchsOA2RDus > >In the case brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, Trump faces 34 felony >counts of falsifying business records to allegedly cover up payments, >including to Daniels, in a bid to conceal damaging information as part >of a “catch-and-kill” scheme to influence the 2016 election. He has >pleaded not guilty. The trial began last month, and Daniels took the >stand on Tuesday. > >CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP > >During the cross-examination, Daniels said “yes” after being asked if >she hated Trump. When pressed on whether she wants Trump to go to jail, >Daniels said she wants “him to be held accountable” and “if he is found >guilty, absolutely.” She also faced questions about tweets suggesting >she does not want to pay $500,000 in legal fees to Trump after a failed >defamation lawsuit. > >“The defense is going to say she’s willing to defy a court order,” >Honig said after raising these issues. “Why — she’s not willing to >respect an order of a judge, why is she going to respect this oath she >took? I thought it went quite poorly on cross-exam. At the end of >direct, I thought, OK, they got what they needed. But I think the cross >is making real inroads.” > >Earlier, Honig said his impression was that Stormy Daniels had been >“plausible on her explanation of what happened in that hotel room” in >2006. “It’s hard for me to believe that a juror heard that and thought, >this is entirely made up,” he said, adding that although there “may >well be some embellishments,” he thought it was “quite clear they had >sex in 2006 in that hotel room.” The prosecutors have yet to produce ANY evidence that Trump committed any crime.