by VICTORIA TAFT
Because the Trump trial is a political operation and not really a trial, prosecutors put on the stand Stormy Daniels, the professional adult movie copulator, who treated the courtroom like one of her movie sets. And it got worse from there. By the time the oratorical dust settled, Donald Trump’s defense asked and was denied a mistrial in this bookkeeping case.
So outrageous was some of her testimony that at one point the judge had prosecutors try to rein in Daniels, who came prepared with jokes, stories, and other tropes to win over jurors. She was so bad that even CNN and MSNBC noted it.
Stormy is bombing and it’s beautiful.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) May 7, 2024
The testimony was so prejudicial that Trump attorney Will Scharf told Fox News it was “impossible to unring the bell.” He and his colleagues demanded a mistrial during Daniels’ testimony.
Scharf lambasted prosecutors for attempting “to pollute the entire with irrelevant, highly prejudicial evidence that should have no place in this trial or frankly in any courtroom.” He said the prosecutors’ actions were deporable. “As a former prosecutor, I find their conduct deeply, deeply offensive and I’m hopeful that Judge Merchan sees what’s going on here,” he told host Martha MacCallum with utter disgust in his voice.
Prosecutors stood by as Daniels told in intimate detail about a 2006 encounter with Trump at a golf tournament. In another instance, Daniels also alluded to a novel non-consensual sexual tryst with Trump. So she called him a rapist? That’s a new one!
Daniels sued the former president for defamation when he called her allegation that Trump sent a person to tell Daniels to shut up about her talk about Trump a “total con job.” When she gave a description of the man it looked an awful lot like her own husband. She lost the case and wound up being ordered to pay Trump more than $250,000 in legal fees. This was presented by the defense as a reason why Daniels had a motive to Get Trump.
Trump has denied all trysts with Daniels.
MISTRIAL!
After the outrageous conduct in court today by the New York DA’s Office, a mistrial is absolutely warranted in President Trump’s trial. pic.twitter.com/mYDcQ8VJ36
— Will Scharf (@willscharf) May 7, 2024
At one point Judge Juan Merchan told prosecutors that “The degree of detail you are going into here is just unnecessary.” He said he’d come back Thursday and decide whether he’ll give jurors an instruction to forget what they just heard.
Good luck.
Scharf said:
The material introduced in court today and frankly much of the material introduced by other witnesses is so prejudicial and has so little probative value that has essentially infected this case in a way that I don’t think a simple limiting instruction can cure.”
That’s why we believe a mistrial is warranted. We’ll obviously have to consider our options going forward. I find the DA’s office conduct today to be particularly outrageous. I’m assuming many other lawyers would feel the same way just based on what normal courtroom practice would be. And I’m hopeful that Judge Merchan sees the light in the coming days.
After the denial of the mistrial, Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, cross-examined Daniels about her efforts to get money out of Trump and her stated glee at seeing him go to jail.
The Washington Post got part of the colloquy:
“Am I correct that you hate President Trump … and you want him to go to jail, right?” Necheles asked.
New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan has been having frequent sidebars during the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels, as lawyers’ fighting intensifies over her answers and what questions they’re allowed to ask. The more frequent breaks for whispered arguments are not surprising, given that the judge just chastised the defense for not objecting enough in the morning session.
A defamation case filed by Daniels against Trump in California resulted in the case being dismissed and Daniels being ordered to pay more than $293,000 in Trump’s legal fees. Necheles said judgments for legal fees have also been entered against her for $245,000 and another last year for $121,972.
“Am I correct that you hate President Trump … and you want him to go to jail, right?” Necheles asked.
“You’ve chosen to disobey a court order?” Necheles asked Daniels.
“I’ve chosen not to pay,” Daniels replied. She acknowledged tweeting that she would go to jail before she paid Trump.
The Manhattan prosecutor, Susan Hoffinger, said the material of the alleged sex between Trump and Stormy Daniels was probative in the bookkeeping case.
Anything you say, sis.
Even the Washington Post noted, “In a case about bank records, the jury is hearing a lot about sex.”
There’s the old adage about legal cases. Say it with me now: If you have facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have neither, put a porno performer on the stand to pound the defendant.
The law, justice, due process and the truth is not the point here. It’s just a kangaroo court to smear Trump with leftist lies because Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden is such a weak, incompetent, despicable, corrupt, treasonous, pedophile piece of petrified shit.
Oh, please. Smears and personal attacks are how Trump does politics. Now he’s got some people slinging it back at him in court, and he cries foul.
What does she know of Trumps book keeping? The fornication pretender knows of one subject, it isnt accounting. Her attorney, a star on MSLSD and CNN, now prison took all her money. She might be a little bitter.
She’s the reason business records were falsified. What happened between them is what he was paying to keep from voters. Her testimony establishes his motive.
After Trump’s recorded grab ’em soundbite, her story probably would have cost him the 2016 election. Then there was the Playboy bunny. He had to shut it all down.
Why did he then falsify the books? That was the step too far. It changed the hush money payment from a moral issue of deceiving the voters into an actual prosecutable crime.
There already has been testimony how the payment was handled by the book keepers, you need to catch up.
The book keepers followed his instructions. They didn’t decide for themselves to issue payments or to falsify the books to conceal what they were.
The prosecution is laying out who, what, when, where, and why. All of the things they spent days reading into the evidence will support their case.
That wasnt the testimony of the book keeper he saw a payment to an attorney and entered it that way. Trump was too busy campaigning to bother with the book keeping stuff.
Who was it that identified the payment as an attorney payment? Who did what to give the bookkeeper that impression? Obviously somebody knew what it really was.
Perhaps the bill where the invoice might say attorney at law? Well that would be before he was disbarred. If you are audited you best have a receipt or bill.
Im betting the invoice didnt read whore hush money, most likely just hours or expenses. After all he was at that time in kahoots with Putin to build a hotel in Moscow very suspicious to the opinion shows.
The bookkeeper followed WHO’S instructions?
Your still a stupid Know-Nothing
Had the Hunter laptop story not been suppressed it WOULD have cost Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden the election. The difference is, the Stormy story is a lie but the Hunter laptop and all the evidence of corruption on it is the truth.
Are you upset the Hunter laptop story was illegally suppressed and kept from the public?
Nothing was falsified, which is why they put the video whore on the stand to lie about Trump. She already admitted there was no affair, no sex. She lost a defamation suit making accusations against Trump. She even admits, under oath, that she will not respect the law and satisfy that court judgement. Yeah, she’s your “star witness” alright.
So, that means he and anyone that supports him have all their Constitutional protections and rights revoked? Fact it, he does quite a bit more which benefits the American people; the actual reason for all this fascist lawfare.
I know you don’t know what justice, due process, truth and fairness is, but the court is not the place for slinging random insults and false accusations.
So now Daniels says, under oath, that she and Trump did have sex. Do you accept that fact now, or do you still deny it happened?
Was she lying then or is she lying now?
Oh the dude with daddy issues wants us to believe a long in the tooth washed up porn star. The other star”witness” is an admitted liar, this is an air tight case.
It’s good to see you’re putting your JD to use.
triggered are we gelding?
No more triggered than she was when she got angry at me for responding to her when she asked someone else a question.
I see no angry response from her are you mentally ok?
Did your vag get hurt?
You like my meme? They cropped out the haybale.
I figured she was sharing an ice cream cone with Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden.
I really can’t imagine people believing Trump would dip his wick in that skank.
Go kiss a Howler Monkey
You mean that she has changed her story after she changed her story after she changed her story? Yeah, I still think she is lying. Why wouldn’t she? Does anyone actually believe Bragg would prosecute her for perjury?
Stormy saw how much money E. Jean Carroll made with a rape accusation without a shred of evidence or credibility so she figured she’d try her luck. Maybe she can get wherever that was supposed to have happened to pass a law to forget about the statute of limitations for a little while so she can bring her case. Those passing the legislation need to be careful, though.
Democrats are utterly disgraceful in their blatant lawfare and doing to the concept of justice what Stormy used to do for a living.
Daniels amusingly said she passed out during the alleged sex. Turns out she can’t remember dick.
Judge Merchan is pathetic. He said he didn’t want lurid details presented and yet he’s allowing them. He scolded Trump’s lawyers for objecting too much and then scolded them for not objecting enough. This trial is a damned farce.
I wonder if anyone noticed the reciprocating motions under his robe during the testimony?
Glorious to see everyone f their cases against Trump blow up spectacularly.
This is why the left tries to keep all the “evidence” of their cases secret. Once the layers begin getting peeled away, the more the absolute lack of law, truth, due process, and actual cause is revealed.
This case has zero chance of surviving appeal. Merchan might instruct the jury find a directed verdict just to avoid being overturned and ridiculed.
Kick Merchan off the Bench remove him and retire him to Prison with Soros and Bragg
We watch this trash
Total smokescreen. We all know had biden been idicoand made to stand trial he would have been found guilty and force from office and into prison.
And he ain’t out of the woods yet.