#TrumpTrial Thurs 9 May, 2024 🧵
The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking #StormyDaniels whether she was arrested. Justice #Merchan agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”
The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand
#Trump atty #Necheles begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.
#law #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney
Prosecution objects & the judge instructs #StormyDaniels not to answer.
#Necheles moves on, saying that Daniels changed her account in 2016, when she was trying to sell her story.
Necheles may ask questions she knows will prompt objections. Just because something is stricken from the record, doesn’t mean the jury didn’t hear it. Sometimes jurors pay more attention then.
#law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
#Necheles presses #StormyDaniels, asking if she wanted money from #Trump.
Daniels: “No. I never asked for money from anyone in particular, I asked for money to tell my story”
Necheles: “That’s what you were asking in 2016, was for money, to be able to tell your story?”
Tues Daniels said that initially, she wasn’t interested in money.
#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics
#Necheles: “That was your choice, right?” she says, of Daniels accepting money for silence.
#StormyDaniels fights back, but says she “accepted an offer” because she was “running out of time.” referring to the fact that the 2016 presidential election was quickly approaching.
Necheles asks Daniels why she talked to a Slate reporter, & then stopped, implying that Daniels didn't do the interview because she wasn't going to be paid.
Defense says #StormyDaniels was in conversation w/multiple reporters about the possibility of selling her story before the election, seeking to use that info to show that Daniels was using her story to threaten #Trump.
Defense, as it did w/ #KeithDavidson, Daniels's fmr lawyer, is trying to paint Daniels as not only a liar, but as an extortionist, saying that she was telling Weisberg, that she either wanted money or she wanted to hurt Trump politically.
#Necheles: “You were threatening to try to hurt [Trump] if he didn’t give you money.”
#StormyDaniels: “False”
On Tues, Daniels said that she spoke w/ Slate reporter Jacob Weisberg during a period when her deal w/ #MichaelCohen seemed like it would not go through. Today, she made a similar but finer point, saying the interview w/ Weisberg was almost like an insurance policy to make certain her story would get out if the NDA collapsed.
#StormyDaniels is pushing back on #Necheles, asking for evidence when the lawyer claims that Daniels had called her lawyer weak-willed.
Daniels: “Show me where I said that,” - forcing the defense to produce exhibits to back up allegations.
Necheles pulls up the transcript & audio & Daniels’s voice is not on the tape; it is #MichaelCohen & #KeithDavidson, her lawyer at the time - so Daniels is correct, not the #Trump atty.
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