As Stormy Daniels finished testifying at Donald Trump’s hush money trial, one question lingered – did she help prosecutors prove the former president falsified business records?

Daniels recounted in lurid detail her tryst with Trump in a hotel room in 2006 before seeing him several more times over the next year, an account the former president adamantly denies. A decade later, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000 to stay silent just before the election.

Prosecutors said they needed testimony from Daniels, an adult film star, because she could demonstrate why Trump wanted to keep her story away from voters shortly after the release of the now infamous Access Hollywood tape in 2016. Trump lawyer Susan Necheles used her cross examination to depict Daniels as an extortionist and liar whose shifting accounts of her evening with Trump couldn’t be trusted.

“Your story has completely changed, hasn’t it?” Necheles asked Thursday. “No, not at all. You’re trying to make me say it’s changed but it hasn’t changed,” Daniels said.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-09/stormy-daniels-grilled-at-trial-over-trump-tryst-inconsistencies?sref=omvmmwIg

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