After Stormy Daniels’ testimony on Tuesday in New York, Donald Trump’s lawyers stepped up to discredit the former porn actress’ comments. “You wanted to make money? “, “You wanted to make more money, didn’t you? », insisted Susan Necheles, the former president’s lawyer during her cross-examination, portraying her interlocutor as a woman greedy for money. If Donald Trump has always denied having had a sexual relationship with her, one of the aspects of the affair lies in the 130,000 dollars paid to Stormy Daniels by Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer, Michael Cohen, to buy her silence by 2016.
Donald Trump’s defense is doing everything to undermine Stromy Daniels’ testimony. Heard for five hours on Tuesday, the actress and director delivered an unfiltered account of her meeting and the sexual relationship she claims to have had in 2006.
Stormy Daniels: a corrupt woman
During their cross-examination, Donald Trump’s lawyers therefore did not hesitate to assert that Stormy Daniels wanted to make a lot of money by using this relationship to put pressure on candidate Donald Trump. “You threatened political harm to the president if he didn’t give you money for this story?” “, insisted Susan Necheles. Stormy Daniels didn’t let it get her down, saying she “chose safety.” “The best solution was to protect my story with a written record, so that my family would not be in danger,” she assured on the stand.
For Susan Necheles, the former porn star is not at all credible. “You have also acted in and directed more than 150 pornographic films (…) so you have a lot of experience in the art of making phony sexual relations real,” she told him. “I didn’t need to write that one,” replied the actress. In addition to the attacks on the motivations of Stormy Daniels, the defense denounced an unworthy and “extremely damaging” statement for the candidate for the 2024 presidential election. On this subject, judge Juan Merchan considered that certain parts of the testimony could have “remain silent”.