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Trump defence attorneys connected Thursday said Stormy Daniels’ communicative astir an alleged intersexual brushwood with the erstwhile president keeps changing due to the fact that the matter ne'er happened.
Defense lawyer for erstwhile President Trump Susan Necheles led the continued cross-examination of Daniels Thursday, aft her hours-long grounds connected Tuesday that prompted the Trump squad to question for a mistrial, calling it "unnecessary" and "prejudicial." The justice denied the motion.
Necheles, during questioning, pointed to a connection Daniels signed successful 2018 denying an brushwood with Trump ever took place. Daniels said she did not constitute the statement, but signed it.
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Necheles pointed to different connection wherever Daniels denied having a intersexual narration with Trump. In part, the connection reads: "I’m denying this matter due to the fact that it ne'er happened."
Daniels claimed ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was pushing for her to motion the statement.
Stormy Daniels and her lawyer, Clark Brewster, airs for a photograph successful the witnesser country astatine Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, May 7, 2024. (Brewster & De Angelis Law Offices)
Daniels denied ever requesting wealth from Trump. Facing unit from Necheles, Daniels added, "I ne'er asked for wealth from anyone successful particular. I asked for wealth for telling my story… I was asking for wealth from publications to merchantability my story, to get the information out."
Daniels admitted to selling the communicative for astir $1 million, erstwhile she agreed to constitute her book, "Full Disclosure," for $800,000. But she claimed she did not person each that money.
When asked astir the book, Daniels said she elaborate her beingness for readers opening astatine the property of 2, but said she assumed radical would work astir Trump first.
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When asked for circumstantial details astir the alleged intersexual brushwood successful 2006 connected the sidelines of a personage play tourney successful Lake Tahoe, Daniels appeared to archer a antithetic communicative successful tribunal than erstwhile she archetypal spoke astir the incident, oregon successful her book.
"You told In Touch a wholly antithetic story," Necheles said, which Daniels denied, adding determination were conscionable "parts successful the mediate I didn’t remember."
Daniels said In Touch "left retired a batch of worldly due to the fact that they couldn’t fact-check it." The In Touch communicative was written successful 2011, but wasn't published until aft the 2016 election.
Stormy Daniels is questioned by authoritative Susan Hoffinger during erstwhile President Trump's transgression trial. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
"You made it up," Necheles said.
Daniels replied: "No."
Daniels went connected to sermon the chamber wherever the alleged brushwood took place, saying it was acold distant from the beforehand door, and saying that she couldn’t permission the country due to the fact that Trump’s bodyguard was allegedly extracurricular the door.
But Necheles reminded her that successful yet different interview, with Vogue magazine, Daniels was quoted arsenic saying determination were nary threats during the alleged brushwood and she asserted thing was holding her successful the room.
Necheles went connected to inquire Daniels if she knew oregon understood wherefore Trump was indicted successful Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case, to which she said no, and added that helium was "indicted for a batch of things."
Necheles declared that Daniels’ communicative has changed truthful galore times due to the fact that she ne'er had an matter with Trump but wanted to gain money.
Under re-direct questioning from authoritative Susan Hoffinger, Daniels testified that she entered the non-disclosure agreement, and took the $130,000 hush wealth outgo for her ain safety, aft she testified Tuesday that she wanted to marque wealth by selling her communicative astir Trump.
She added, "We’re each blessed to instrumentality the money. It’s conscionable a bonus."
Hoffinger besides asked if fearfulness was a crushed Daniels entered into the NDA and "hiding successful plain view."
Daniels said an lawyer person of hers told her that "if you’re retired successful the open, you’re safer."
Daniels sued Trump successful 2018, claiming the non-disclosure statement she signed wasn't valid due to the fact that it lacks Trump’s signature.
Former President Trump watches arsenic Stormy Daniels is questioned by authoritative Susan Hoffinger during Trump's transgression trial. (Reuters/Jane Rosenberg)
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Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying concern records successful the archetypal degree. The charges stem from a years-long probe by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
The charges are related to alleged payments made up of the 2016 statesmanlike predetermination to soundlessness Daniels astir an alleged 2006 extramarital matter with Trump.
Bragg indispensable person the assemblage that, not lone did Trump falsify concern records related to alleged hush wealth payments, helium did truthful successful furtherance of different transgression – conspiracy to beforehand oregon forestall election, which would beryllium a felony.
On their own, falsifying concern records and conspiracy to beforehand oregon forestall predetermination are misdemeanor charges.
Brooke Singman is simply a governmental analogous and newsman for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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