That woman is Stormy Daniels.
Last week, members of Donald Trump’s defense team put the first serious dent in the prosecution’s case in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial. It came when they got their turn to cross-examine one of the prosecution’s witnesses, former Daniels attorney Keith Davidson, who represented the adult film actor at the earliest stages of this scandal. Trump’s attorney Emil Bove hammered Davidson withbetween Davidson and Trump fixer Michael Cohen.
It was from this approach to Davidson that a view of Trump’s ultimate defense in this case began to take shape. This was not a “conspiracy” to illegallyvia unreported in-kind contributions, it seems Trump’s attorney’s will argue. Instead, it was a shakedown by a porn star making false charges and a sleazy celebrity extortion-artist lawyer of a presidential candidate.
This defense case will have its benefits and its downsides. First, the upsides: It appears partially supported by some of those audio recordings between Davidson and Cohen that were played for the jury Thursday. In—taken March 7, 2018, after the Wall Street Journal had broken the hush money story but while all parties were still denying it—Davidson suggests that Daniels had “settler’s remorse” and, hypothetically, when “you realize you have a lot more leverage, you try to settle it twice.
But the third problem, and perhaps the biggest one, is that these recordings may actually help disprove one of Trump’smajor defenses. Remember, the prosecution has elevated its charges to a felony level specifically because of how it has argued that the payoff counts as campaign finance crimes.
If Cohen gets on the stand and is able to convince the jury that the “he” in this statement was Donald Trump and the “we” was him and Trump, it might not matter how badly the defense is able to portray Stormy
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