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Subject: Re: Stormy Daniels Gave "Disastrous" Testimony In Trump Trial, CNN Legal Analyst Says
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 04:30:42 -0400
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In article <v1vrvv$9d31$1@solani.org>, suzeeq@imbris.com wrote:
> On 5/14/2024 4:25 AM, NoBody wrote:
>> 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.

Were you recently, or ever kicked in the head by a mule?

There is no crime and if it there were, it's expiration date has long passed.
This is just another example of why America is becoming a banana republic.

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Let's go Brandon!