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On Sun, 12 May 2024 04:30:46 -0400, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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.
>
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>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.