The cross exam of Stormy, the entire tone of it, was due to Trump telling his lawyers to attack her. It’s killing him that he cannot attack her or say anything he wants.
Further, several experienced court observers pointed out, that the fact that not one single juror was seen taking notes during the cross exam, can be taken as a very good sign that the jury believed Stormy’s testimony.
Instead of key question "undermining Daniels, she got the better of the exchange,” says Norm Eisen.
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Hindsight is 2020, but as Judge Juan Merchan explained to Donald Trump’s defense team on Thursday: If you didn’t want a problematic alleged sexual encounter with your client openly discussed in a Manhattan courtroom, you shouldn’t have brought it up on the first day of trial by denying any such interaction ever took place. And when Stormy Daniels began testifying, recounting in excruciating detail her claimed hotel-room rendezvous with the former president, it was the defense counsel’s job to stand up and say what they believed was out of bounds, Merchan said.
“For the life of me,” Merchan said at the end of Thursday’s proceedings,
per ABC News, “I don’t know why Ms. [Susan] Necheles didn’t object.”
Those failures led the judge in Trump’s criminal hush money case from granting a defense motion for a mistrial. But observers of the
cross examination that took place earlier in the day can understand why the former president’s lawyers would try.
Trump attorney Susan Necheles repeatedly sought to paint Daniels as "nutty and slutty," legal analyst says.
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