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# Testifying in Hush Money Trial, Stormy Daniels Describes First Meeting Trump

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_Published 2024-05-08. With Donald Trump sitting just feet away, Stormy Daniels testified Tuesday at the former president's hush money trial about a sexual encounter the porn actor says they had in 2006 that resulted in her being paid to keep silent during the presidential race 10 years later._


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## Transcript

Stormy Daniels testimony of Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial compelled the former president lawyers to ask for a mistrial Trump's lawyers told judge Juan Marshawn that Daniels White far-field in the ground rules that were established for her testimony for months and months defense lawyers the prosecutors and the judge had been in talks and came up with rules for what they could testify about and what level of detail she could provide to the jury several times during her testimony Trump's lawyers objected when they felt that she was going beyond the scope of what had been established as the ground rules.

She talked about the sexual encounter in details that she was not supposed to they are good but judge mershon in denying that mistrial request said the defense did not try hard enough to a Jack and prevent that testimony. He said it was incumbent on them to speak out and stand up and try to block her from sharing those details that they say I were prejudicial to their client wants the mistrial matter was resolved Trump lawyer Susan necklace started her cross-examination questioning a Stormy Daniels on Daniels. What she said was a scripting Narrative of the sexual encounter the alleged sexual encounter necklace pointed to an account that Jane has reported in her book in 2018 compared to some of the testimony she gave in court on Tuesday.

Necklace also pointed to potential motivations for Daniel cooperating in this investigation in this trial. She play it to Daniels Towing several hundred thousand dollars in legal fees to Donald Trump as a result of various litigation that emanated in the aftermath of the pasta Monday deal at the heart of this trial Susan necklace asked Stormy Daniels. If she wants to see Trump in jail and Stormy Daniels said, yes, she did if he's found guilty. In this case. He should be punished necklace also ask Daniel's if she was trying to extort Trump when she was shopping restore your having a friend shop her story in the Press.

In the months leading up to the 2016 election Stormy Daniels was forceful in a response. She says that is false. She said she did not try to extort doll shop. In fact, she said she was not looking for money. She wanted to tell her story. She did not want to be kept silent. But when time is running out for the election and Trump lawyer Michael Cohen made a deal to pay her $130,000. That's when she felt she needed to get paid before the election because she thought Owen was trying to leverage the election against her in her mind. She felt a cold was trying to wait out the clock that the election was held and it regardless of whether Trump won or lost.

He wouldn't have to pay her the money if Trump won. It wouldn't have mattered if the story came out and if Trump lost it wouldn't matter also because he would no longer be in a presidential campaign that could be damaged by those Revelations.

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