re: #96 darthstar

It was a beautiful own goal by the defense. Grilling Stormy about blacking out during sex with Trump just seared the image into the minds of the jurors. Slut shaming backfired repeatedly… she is used to being called a slut…it doesn’t hurt her. Asking questions when you don’t know the answer? Isn’t that covered in Intro to Trial Court 1A?

Stormy responding by saying, “show me where I said that” was also brutal. No wonder Trump wanted the gag order lifted…he can’t respond to this under oath.

Necheles gave the performance that we were told earlier in the trial Trump was pissed that Blanche wasn’t providing him: angry, combative, and destructive. Instead of approaching Daniels as a fact witness and keeping the cross-exam short by focusing on inconsistencies in her testimony, Necheles instead spent her time trying to attack Daniels’ motives for testifying and restoring Trump’s reputation by ruining hers. The jury’s not there to judge her on her career choice or her reasons for going to the press with her story, they’re there to hear her confirm that the two had a sexual encounter and that he paid her for it.