Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: suzeeq 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 07:20:48 -0700 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 14:20:48 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="308321"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:2kEsn0CMGBk+56Szwlnvloy0zSs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: X-User-ID: eJwFwQcBwEAIBDBL7CHnyoN/CU1cg2PSwsP8/PoxV2OTUPp8VsFCwpyobAfdzqJEFPkZ6Q8UNxC+ Bytes: 4088 Lines: 57 On 5/14/2024 4:25 AM, NoBody wrote: > 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. > He's charged with covering up payments to her for killing her story to interfere with his 2016 campaign. That's the crime and they have proved it with other witnesses.