Stormy Daniels’s Biggest Role Yet
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
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🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Naomi Fry, a staff writer and co-host of the New Yorker podcast Critics at Large, joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss her impressions of Stormy Daniels’s testimony in the hush-money trial of former President Donald Trump. Having spent weeks doing a deep dive on the adult-film star’s life, Fry explains her understanding of Daniels’s motivations in accepting the hush money and what the sordid tale says about American culture today.
This week’s reading:
- Stormy Daniels’s American Dream, by Naomi Fry
- Can You Believe What Michael Cohen Just Said at the Trump Trial?, by Eric Lach
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| 1:18.8 | very rich, very powerful man, but that doesn't mean that she's not telling the truth. |
| 1:28.5 | My colleague Nomi Fry has spent the last several weeks thinking and writing about Stormy Daniels. |
| 1:33.9 | Donald Trump seated just 10 feet away as the woman at the center of his hush money cover of |
| 1:39.1 | trial, Stormy Daniels, testified in vivid detail. |
| 1:43.3 | As prosecutors prepare to rest their case in the People |
| 1:46.6 | versus Donald Trump, I wanted to talk with Nomi about her new piece, Stormy Daniels' American |
| 1:52.3 | Dream, which considers Daniels' cannyness, her credibility, her life experience, and her recent |
| 1:58.8 | testimony in Manhattan Criminal Court. You're listening to the |
| 2:02.3 | political scene. I'm Tyler Foggett and I'm a senior editor at The New Yorker. |
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