Stormy: "I know nothing about his business records."
That's literally all the defense really needed to establish from this witness.
What a self-inflicted wound by the defense.
Necheles finally asks the one question she should have asked on this cross: whether Stormy had knowledge about what Trump did in connection with the hush-money transaction.
Literally this should have been a five-minute cross, focused on that single proposition.
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Trump’s team has finished their initial cross examination of Stormy Daniels. It was actually longer than the direct was. Three hours and six minutes. Prosecutors questioned her for about 2.5 hours.
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Trump attorney Susan Necheles: “You have a lot of experience of making phony stories about sex appear to be real.”
Daniels shoots back: “Wow. That’s not how I would put it. The sex in the films is very much real, just like what happened to me in that room."