Adult film star Stormy Daniels Stormy Daniels trolled former President Trump and his legal team after testifying Thursday in New York’s silent trial.
“Real men respond to testimony by taking an oath and taking their stand in court. Oh wait. Nevermind,” Daniels said on a Thursday publish on social media platform X.
Daniels’ jab came after Trump and his legal team complained about her testimony on Tuesday and Thursday.
On Thursday, the former president’s team tried to change Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order so that he could respond to Daniels’ testimony. They argued that since she had completed her statement, any possibility of her being subpoenaed had passed.
Her legal team also sought a mistrial, claiming that her testimony revealed too much about her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with the former president.
Merchan denied both attempts.
Daniels’ shot at Trump in X was also an apparent reference to him potentially taking a stand in the case and confronting the allegations she made.
Trump lawyer Susan Necheles, the only woman on his legal team on the case, tried to diminish Daniels’ credibility with the jury by portraying her as an unreliable witness and claiming that she had changed her story about the alleged encounter. Necheles also went after Daniels for making a profit since she alleged the affair with the former president.
Trump faces 34 criminal charges in the New York case for falsifying business records, accusing him of illegally concealing payments that his former agent, Michael Cohen, made in the final stages of his 2016 presidential campaign to keep Daniels silent about the alleged affair. extramarital.
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