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Stormy Daniels clashes with Trump attorneys during 2nd day of testimony

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The adult film actress at the center of Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial finished her testimony after more than seven hours in total on the stand. Stormy Daniels was questioned by the former president's defense attorney in a tense cross-examination that tried to paint her as an opportunist. William Brangham reports from New York. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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The adult film actress at the center of former President Trump's criminal

0:04.0

hush money trial finished her testimony today after more than seven hours on the

0:08.4

stand. Stormy Daniel spent the morning being questioned by Trump's defense

0:12.4

attorney in a tense cross-examination

0:14.8

that tried to paint her as an opportunist.

0:17.4

She was just one of several witnesses who appeared in court today.

0:20.5

Our William Brango has been covering this.

0:21.9

He joins us now from New York. So New York, Miss Daniels, rather William, Miss Daniels finished her second and her last day on the stand today. We're saying she's at the center of this trial, but she's not really involved in any of the

0:35.2

hush money repayments that Mr. Trump is accused of trying to conceal here.

0:40.1

So tell us a little bit about what she did testify to today.

0:44.0

That's exactly right, Amna.

0:46.0

She testified that she has no direct knowledge of the charges that are at the center

0:51.0

of this falsifying business records case, but yet as you said

0:55.6

she is also at the very center of this case. And her testimony continued today

1:00.0

with her finishing telling the story of this alleged one-time sexual encounter

1:05.4

she had with Donald Trump at a Celebrity Golf Tournament years ago in Lake Tahoe

1:10.9

and the then 130,,000 that she negotiated to get paid to silence that story and make sure it never came out.

1:20.0

And Trump's legal team today, led by Susan Necklace, tried to poke holes in inconsistencies

1:26.9

that she has given over the years, trying to say that she's not told a consistent story.

1:31.0

There were lots of little examples of this. Like one example they

1:33.8

spent a good deal of time trying to parse out whether Storm McDaniel's ever said

1:37.9

that she ate dinner, literally ate a meal with him in that room that night of this alleged affair.

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