Trump’s history-making hush-money trial begins ...(Mod Warning)

Correct.

 

Hope Hicks.

 

Trump didn't pay Stormy Daniels.

 

Agree. I love the one that was 9-0 by the Supreme Court. Remember that one? It was fairly recent.

 

So Cohen took out a loan, and got reimbursed by the Orange Turd doesn't count?

 

Show me.

 

wow...how very Trumpian of you

Yeah, cause Michael Cohen mortgaged his house to pay Stormy for what ?

 

Correct. Trump didn't pay her. This a court of law, not a court of "anything I say is true".

 

I do, and if you read my posts I agreed with that decision

 

Cohen is a convicted liar. Good luck.

 

Your not being serious here ?

Of Course TRUMP didnt pay him, his CAMPAIGN paid him back.

 

Time to get Karen McDougal on the stand under oath and talk about Mario Toad and Yeti.

7m ago / 3:44 PM EDT
Defense lawyer asks Stormy Daniels if she had sex with Trump


Trump lawyer Susan Necheles asked Daniels if she claimed she had sex with Trump. Daniels asked Necheles if she was referring to what she wrote in her book and then said yes.

Asked if it's true that she's been making money by saying for more than a decade that she had sex with Trump, Daniels said she's been making money by telling her story about what happened to her.

“That story made you a lot of money right?" Necheles asked.

"It has also cost me a lot of money

 

Remember the one where he was order to pay 350 million? It was fairly recent.

And overall his success in court has been dismal.

 

And what was he convicted for lying about ...oh yeah, PROTECTING TRUMP !!!!!

 

1 min ago
Daniels says her ordeal taught her that she "should tell the truth and not trust people"


Trump attorney Susan Necheles suggests Stormy Daniels had to talk about her sexual encounter with President Trump to make money.

"It taught you if you want to make money about President Trump, you better talk about sex," Necheles asks.

"No, although that does seem to be the case. Sadly," Daniels says.

"You learned from that, did you not, that a story about President Trump that doesn’t include sex will make you no money, right?"

"It taught me that I should tell the truth and not trust people" I did not think I should trust, Daniels says.

2 min ago
Daniels is confronted with a page from her book as prosecution presses her about Allred conversation
Trump attorney Susan Necheles is confronting Stormy Daniels with a document.

"You told Gloria Allred that you did not have sex with President Trump?," Necheles asks.

"No I did not say that, I said that I did," Daniels says.

They are now showing Daniels the document, which is a page from her book "Full Disclosure."

Trump is leaning forward to read it on his monitor, too.

"Yes during that phone conversation. When I met her in person later I told her everything," Daniels says.

Necheles suggests Daniels is making this up as she sits here on the stand.

 

So, it's that simple to avoid the law, eh?

 

1 min ago
Daniels: "I kept all of it secret from my husband"


Stormy Daniels is being asked about the time she was threatened by a man in Las Vegas.

She confirms she didn't tell anybody about the story until 2018 when she agreed it was "probably" in an interview with Anderson Cooper.

"I kept all of it secret from my husband," Daniels says.

"Your daughter's life was in jeopardy and you did not tell her father," Trump attorney Susan Necheles asks.

"Right," Daniels replies.

3 min ago
Trump's attorney is now asking Daniels about being threatened in 2011
Trump attorney Susan Necheles is now asking Stormy Daniels about her statements about being threatened in 2011.

Necheles asks it it's true that she didn't tell anyone about the supposed threat. Daniels says. that she told her close friends.

"You didn’t tell your husband, father of child?" Necheles asks.

"Correct," Daniels said.

 

2 min ago
Daniels says she believed Cohen sent man who threatened her in 2011, but she was wrong


Susan Necheles asks Stormy Daniels if she believed Michael Cohen sent "that man in the garage," referring to a 2011 incident where Daniels says a man threatened her in a parking lot while she was on her way to a mommy-and-me class with her infant daughter.

Daniels says that's what she thought at the time, but she was wrong.

 

Well, there ya go. Trump wasn't involved.

 

Appealed. Good luck.

 

A lot more than that.

 

yeah...OK.....

The testimony contradicts that...but go ahead.....

 

Looks like that is the law.

 

3 min ago
Trump started the day outraged about the lack of notice that Stormy Daniels would testify

From CNN's Dan Berman

Given the tense atmosphere in the courtroom as Trump's attorney Susan Necheles presses Stormy Daniels in various ways in order to damage the adult film star's credibility, it's worth remembering that at the beginning of the day Trump was angry about not knowing who today's witness was.

Trump railed against the timing in which his team became aware of Tuesday’s witness in his criminal trial in an early morning Truth Social post that has since been taken down.

“I have just recently been told who the witness is today. This is unprecedented, no time for lawyers to prepare,” the deleted post said.
Before the jury came in Tuesday morning, Necheles renewed the defense team's objection to Daniels testifying.

"We want to renew our objection this morning. We’re informed the second witness will be Stormy Daniels. We want to renew our objection to her testifying, particularly about any details of any sexual acts," she said.

Prosecutors have made a point of not sharing witness plans with Trump, citing his various social media posts attacking potential witnesses.

5 min ago
The court is taking an afternoon break
The court is taking a short afternoon break. Stormy Daniels is expected to resume her testimony soon.

Donald Trump pursed his lips and exhaled as he walked down the aisle.





4 min ago
Daniels testifies she didn't make up story about man who threatened her in parking lot
Trump attorney Susan Necheles continues to ask Stormy Daniels about her testimony that she was threatened in 2011 by a man in a parking lot.

"This man never existed, did he?" Susan Necheles asks.

"He absolutely existed," Daniels says.

Necheles then asks if the story was made up.

“None of it's made up,” Daniels says.

Daniels says that Michael Avenatti hired a sketch artist to recreate a description of the man and offered $100,000 to whoever could identify him.

6 min ago
Daniels describes story she told radio show about her sexual encounter with Trump
Stormy Daniels is now testifying that she told the story about her sexual encounter with Trump on a radio show in 2007.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles clarifies that she wrote names down on a paper of famous people she'd slept with.

Daniels says she mentioned Lake Tahoe and a hotel room which was "obviously" about Trump.

Necheles asks Daniels whether she told Anderson Cooper, "I never told this story publicly before because I was threatened." She says that's correct.

 

Uh, no. You can't have someone else make a payment, reimburse them, and get off the hook that way. That's pretty damned silly.