New #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal 🧵starts HERE.
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10/ Still McB:
Q: How did the Kimmel show come about?
A: Gina set it up.
Q: What was to be discussed or not?
A: I wasn't to discuss the relationship or the NDA, anything like that. It was meant to give an example of how I would give appearances and not break the NDA.Shortly before the appearance, Rodriguez and Davidson came to her with a second denial statement, Daniels says, and she initially said no to signing it but relented again on Davidson's advice.
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11/ Q: How did you sign it?
A: I signed it Stormy Daniels, but not how my Stormy Daniels signature is in any other time I had written it, as a tipoff to Jimmy Kimmel that I did not sign it willingly.
Q: Is this denial statement false?
A: Yes.Daniels says that details about the sexual encounter with Trump started to surface in the media, and that she found out Cohen was shopping a book—objection, hearsay, sustained.
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12/ Daniels says that she was upset that Cohen had begun to talk about it "because he could talk about it, and I couldn't."
In about Feb 2018, Daniels says that, yes, Cohen filed
a temporary restraining order trying to keep Daniels from talking about what's in the NDA.After she was served with the temporary restraining order, she says that she hired Michael Avenatti to help her get out of the NDA.
Why?
"So that I could stand up for myself."
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13/ She then went on Anderson Cooper.
Why?
"To get my story out."
Even at the risk of breaching the NDA?
"Yes."
Her legal fees cost just under $100,000, Daniels says, but she was free from the NDA, and so she published a book called Full Disclosure, which included details of the Trump Affair.
Every detail?
"Not every detail, no."
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15/ All caught up!
McB:
April 2018, Avenatti released a sketch of the man she believes she had an encounter with in 2011—in response to the sketch Trump tweeted that the sketch was a "con job," which became the sole basis for a defamation case, Daniels says.
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17/ Klasfeld:
Questioning turns to Michael Avenatti tweeting out a sketch of the man he claimed had threatened Stormy Daniels in a parking lot.
Daniels sued — and lost, badly. It was an expensive defeat.
Prosecution is getting ahead of cross-ex.
Details that prosecutor Susan Hoffinger elicited:
* Daniels says Avenatti posted the sketch without her knowledge.
* The court made no findings about the credibility of her claims about Trump.
* She fired Avenatti for cheating her.
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19/ McB:
In July 2023, Trump filed a proceeding in Fla to recover the rest of the legal fees that Daniels was ordered to pay in defamation case. But Hoffinger clarifies that this will have no bearing on this case.
Q: Why did you go on Cohen's podcast?
A: Because I wanted him to apologize to me.
Q: And did he apologize on that podcast?
A: He did.
Q: Why did you agree to go on again?
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20/ McB:
Hoffinger asks Daniels about the documentary, Stormy, that she was in. Daniels was not paid to appear in it, but the producers paid her $100,000 for the licensing rights from her book.
Q: Was there another reason you did it?
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21/ McB:
3/15/23, Daniels participated in an interview with the Manhattan DA office via Zoom.
Hoffinger displays a post from Trump's truth social account from that same day, below.
Daniels says that she understood the invectives to be about her, and that his claim that he hasn't seen or spoken to her since the golf course is false.
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22/ Phang:
HOFFINGER: Has Trump called you horseface and sleazebag before? DANIELS: Yes
HOFFINGER: Mr. Trump says he hasn't seen you since picture is that true or false?
DANIELS: “False. Because I met with him numerous times after that, and spoke with him on the phone countless times after.” -
24/ McB:
Q: Even though we've never spoken, you've met with the prosecutors several times?
A: Yes.
Q: You rehearsed your testimony?
A: No.
Q: But according to your testimony the prosecution subjected you to brutal prep sessions?
A: Yes.Necheles emphasizes the word "brutal."
>>Correction: Necheles says that Daniels was subjected to "grueling prep sessions that included brutal mock cross-examinations"—her tone is a bit adversarial, and Daniels answers in kind, perhaps even more so.
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26/ McB:
It wasn't rehearsing, it was to have all the facts, to have as much information as possible, Daniels says.
Q: Do you recall saying that you began acting in pornography. It was simple, you wanted more money?
A: Don't we all want more money in our jobs?
Q: That motivates you a lot in life, to make money?
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27/ McB:
Q: Do you want Trump to go to jail?
A: I want him to be held accountable.Straight out the gate, this is a very tense cross.
Necheles questions Daniels about one of her tweets ("I won't walk I'll dance down the street when he's 'selected' to go to jail"), Daniels demands to see it, laughs when she does, and Necheles seizes on it.
Her line of questioning now turns to trying to establish a motive of Daniels, that she'd like to see Trump go to jail, bc she owes Trump legal fees.
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@GottaLaff NFL but maybe someone could chime in…
It feels really weird to me that Necheles decides it's relevant that Daniels wants Trump to go to jail because she owes him money… Going to jail doesn't make that go away. If she owes it, she still owes it.
You'd think if she was trying to find motivation for wanting Trump jailed there would be a better angle.