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Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN
 Legal Analyst Says
Date: Tue, 14 May 2024 07:20:48 -0700
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On 5/14/2024 4:25 AM, NoBody wrote:
> 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.
> 
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.