Trump Trial: Stormy Day In Court!

By Red Painter — May 7, 2024

The weather outside may have been beautiful in New York City, but inside the courtroom it was STORMY! One of the most anticipated witnesses of Donald Trump's 1st criminal trial (of 4) made her debut on Tuesday morning. Glamorous, blonde hair back in a low bun, glasses and dressed demurely for court, she still overtook the room with her bigger than life personality.

Before Stormy Daniels even takes the stand, though, the defense tries to block Stormy from going into details about the sex she had with Donald Trump. You know, the sex Trump denies even occurred. That sex.

Denied. But she can't get into lurid details. I guess that is a bit of a win. She can't describe his tiny, misshapen, mushroom like peen. On the record, at least.

Stormy takes the stand. General back and forth about her life, how she got into porn, etc. Then she starts sharing the story about the night she met Trump in his hotel penthouse at Lake Tahoe in Nevada. Reports from the courtroom are that ALL 18 jurors are paying close attention to everything she is saying.

We get to spanking.

One juror is smiling ear to ear as Stormy recalls spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine that him on the cover.

"At this point I’d pretty much had enough of his arrogance... I was pretty nasty. I snapped. And I said, 'Someone should spank you with that.'"

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

Then this secret.

Tension rising. Stormy recalls bringing up Melania.

"Oh, what about your wife?" she asked.

"Oh, dont worry about that. We dont sleep in the same room," she recalls Trump saying.

The man sits motionless at the defense table, his head leaning to the right.

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

Then the...I am sorry...(deep breath)...she talks about The Sex. (excuse me while I gag).

She describes entering a bathroom, coming out, then finding Trump on the bed in his boxers.

In a hilarious moment, Stormy leans back in her hair, lifts her bare leg above the witness box and poses like Trump lying on the bed.

"Like this."

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

The details she shares: Missionary. No condom. She was concerned, but didn't say anything. It was *brief*. Oh, and Trump told her THREE times that she reminded him of his daughter, Ivanka. PUKE LEVEL HIGHEST EVER.

Then she talks about the payment and a threat she received in a parking garage.

We've reached the part of Stormy's testimony that's started to stretch the imagination.

She says she didn't care at all about the money. She only wanted a deal paper trail to "keep me safe" after getting threatened by someone in 2011 to keep the Trump story quiet.

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

Okay, but what is she talking about? There are a dozen emails about them making the deal. There was a paper trail even if money didn't change hands.

How would a money exchange make her safe?

It's plausible this wasn't *only* about money.

This wasn't about money at all? Nah.

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

Lots of back and forth about tweets and insults Trump hurled at her. Tweets where she bashes him too. Funny how many nasty names about Trump are being entered into the court record for all history.

LUNCH BREAK.

We are back and Trump's team is asking for a mistrial. Why? Todd Blanche said that Stormy said something that was "extraordinarily prejudicial" that was meant only "to inflame this jury." He is talking about the parking garage threat by a stranger. No idea why that would cause a mistrial in a case about election interference and business fraud, but ok. Straws can be grasped.

Denied.

Judge clears his throat and finally weighs in.

"As a threshhold matter, I agree that there are some things that would have been better left unsaid."

"In fairness to the people, I think the witness was a little difficult to control, which is why I was permitting some leading."

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

Then the judge DINGS Trump's team for not objecting more when Stormy was testifying. He actually said: "I will also note that I was surprised there were not *more* objections at various times in the testimony. At one point, the court sua sponte objected because there was no objection coming from the defense."

When the judge is doing your job for you, you are failing as lawyers.

CROSS BEGINS!

Necheles, the female attorney on the defense team, is doing the cross. She comes out, guns blazing, grilling Stormy about whether she was coached or prepped by the prosecutor. Not unexpected to prepare, but an odd place to start.

Then this back and forth:

NECHELES: "Am I correct that you hate President Trump?"
STORMY: "Yes."
NECHELES: "And you want him to go to jail?"
STORMY: "I want him to be held accountable."

Then onto the accusation that this was all about making money for Stormy.

Necheles: You've been making money by claiming you've had sex with Donald Trump for more than a decade, right?
Stormy: I've not been paid for interviews in the United States.

Necheles: And that story has made you a lot of money right?
Stormy: And it has cost me a lot of money.

— Jose Pagliery (@Jose_Pagliery) May 7, 2024

When this isn't landing Necheles accuses her of "making this all up" which leads Stormy to respond "nooooo."

Gross lawyering.

Then onto Stormy owing Trump legal fees.

Necheles asks a string of questions about her defeat in her defamation lawsuit against Trump, along with the six-figure legal fees she's racked up over the years.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 7, 2024

Necheles asks another line of questions about Daniels' nonpayment of the award, saying she's openly disobeyed the court order.

Daniels agrees with Necheles that she said, "I will go to jail before I pay a penny."

"Correct," Daniels replies.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 7, 2024

Q: You don't care about the court order, do you?
A: Of course I care.

Q: Even though there are three court orders for you to pay President Trump, you are not going to do that, are you?
A: I don't know.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 7, 2024

Then about if she ever denied having sex with Trump. She says yes "because I had an NDA." DUH. They talk about her book "full disclosure" and how she didn't say she had sex with Trump. Then onto the parking lot threat. Stormy was reportedly on her way to an exercise class with her infant daughter. A man allegedly approached her, told her to not do anything more or talk about Trump again and then made a comment about how it would be a shame if anything happened to the baby's mother (I am paraphrasing, but you get the gist).

Necheles is trying to show that because Stormy didn't tell anyone at the class, that it was a lie.

Cross-ex turns to Daniels' account of the parking lot threat.

Necheles says she never told anyone in the exercise class, and Daniels replies: "No, I told her that my baby had a blowout on her diaper and that's why I was crying in the bathroom."

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 7, 2024

Necheles says that Daniels did not share her story about the parking lot until "seven years after it supposedly happened."

Q: Your daughter's life was in jeopardy, and you didn't tell her father, right?
A: Right.

— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) May 7, 2024

This back and forth trying to link Michael Cohen to the threat?

NECHELES: Now you and Michael Cohen are buddies??
DANIELS: I wouldn't say we are buddies, he went on my podcast and I went on his.
NECHELES: On that podcast, he told you he had nothing to do with any supposed threat.
DANIELS: Correct.
NECHELES: Both you and Michael Cohen aspire to make money off of seeing President Trump go to jail, correct?

BREAK!

Ok, we are back. 17 minutes to go, as the judge has stated that court will end at 4:30 on the dot!

More back and forth about Stormy selling her story, trying to profit off of this, etc. AND THEN WE ENDED FOR THE DAY! Stormy is back on Thursday (no court on Wednesday) for the rest of cross and then redirect by the prosecutors.