Trump's Defense Lawyer Argues That Stormy Daniels Was In It for Money – The New York Times
Trump Hush-Money Trial
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Prosecutors have argued that Ms. Daniels’s efforts to sell her story of a sexual encounter with Donald J. Trump supplied the motive for his alleged crimes.
For more than seven hours this week, the woman whose encounter with Donald J. Trump resulted in his criminal trial years later told her side of the story.
The woman, Stormy Daniels, answered questions from Manhattan prosecutors for several hours Tuesday before Mr. Trump’s lawyers began cross-examining her and continued on Thursday. Defense lawyers grilled her about inconsistencies in her account and others she has given in the past, and suggested that Ms. Daniels was motivated by money in divulging it.
Ms. Daniels began her testimony this week by describing how she and Mr. Trump met, a now-infamous encounter just off a fairway in Lake Tahoe, Nev., during a celebrity golf tournament in July 2006.
Ms. Daniels, a porn star, had been greeting people who strolled through a tent on the course that had been sponsored by her employer, the film company Wicked Pictures. One was Mr. Trump, the real estate mogul whose fame had skyrocketed as a result of his hosting the reality television show “The Apprentice.”
He said hello to her and posed for a picture, Ms. Daniels said on Tuesday in intense and sometimes graphic testimony. She spoke on the stand mere feet from Mr. Trump, during the first criminal trial of a former American president.
Ms. Daniels said their conversation in the tent was brief — he remarked on her intelligence, evident because she not only starred in films but also directed them, she said.
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