Re: Stormy Weather TFG on Criminal Trial in NYC
Posted: Tue May 07, 2024 8:59 pm
Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
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6h
Judge: "Next witness, please."
"The People call Stormy Daniels."
Daniels broadly smiles as she enters the courtroom, before quickly changing to a serious expression.
Assistant DA Susan Hoffinger begins direct examination.
Daniels confirms her birth name is Stephanie Clifford, but she says she prefers to go by the name Stormy.
She describes her upbringing.
Daniels seems to be firing off details about her life and education very quickly, her voice slightly shaky.
Hoffinger: "May I ask you to slow down just a little bit."
Daniels says that she was 23 years old when she got her first adult film contract with Wicked Pictures.
Daniels:
"I was one of the youngest — if not the youngest adult — feature director."
She rattles off her awards as a director.
She is racing through her testimony — speaking much faster than in the Michael Avenatti trial, as I recall.
(...)
Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
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6h
Daniels recalls meeting at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
"He did a lot of cameos and things like that," Daniels says, adding she was 27 at the time. Trump, she says, was older than her father.
Daniels, pointing in the former president's direction, identifies Trump sitting at the defense table.
Exhibit: Schiller's contact information on Stormy Daniels' phone.
The witness authenticates the exhibit.
Schiller's contact info was entered on her phone as "Keith Trump."
"I didn't know his last name. I just knew who he worked for," Daniels says.
Daniels says a publicist made her reconsider her position of "F no" to dinner with Trump:
"It will make a great story," the publicist said, according to Daniels. "He's a business guy. What could possibly go wrong?" (laughs)
She adds those were actually his words.
Hoffinger reminds Daniels, maybe for the third time, to slow down for the court reporter.
She is speaking marginally slower now.
Daniels recalls visiting Trump's hotel suite, where he was wearing a Hefner-esque robe.
"I told him to go change, and he obliged, very politely," she says.
She adds that he quickly came back in a dress shirt. The room, she says, was "three times the size of my apartment."
Another reminder from the prosecutor for Daniels to slow down for the court reporter.
Daniels:
"He asked how I got involved in the adult entertainment business."
She says she had to correct the "misconception" that adult films don't have plots — and they're all cheap lines about the pizza boy.
Then, she recalls being surprised by Trump's perceptive business questions.
Some of those: Are there any unions? Do you get residuals? Do you get health insurance? Do you get tested for STDs? Is there a doctor on staff?
Daniels: "These were very thought-out business questions."
This leads to an extensive back-and-forth about STD testing and other safety precautions, and Daniels discloses that condoms were always a must, even with her husband — even though she's "allergic" to latex, she says.
Daniels testifies that Trump told her that he and his wife don't sleep in the same room, sparking an audible response in the gallery of the coutroom.
Daniels recounts her famous story about spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine, swirling the imaginary mag above her head on the witness stand.
Q: Where did you swat him?
A: Right on the butt.
A little earlier:
Justice Merchan joined the prosecutor in reminding Daniels to slow down.
She seems more nervous here than in Michael Avenatti's trial.
Morning recess.
@KlasfeldReports
·
6h
Judge: "Next witness, please."
"The People call Stormy Daniels."
Daniels broadly smiles as she enters the courtroom, before quickly changing to a serious expression.
Assistant DA Susan Hoffinger begins direct examination.
Daniels confirms her birth name is Stephanie Clifford, but she says she prefers to go by the name Stormy.
She describes her upbringing.
Daniels seems to be firing off details about her life and education very quickly, her voice slightly shaky.
Hoffinger: "May I ask you to slow down just a little bit."
Daniels says that she was 23 years old when she got her first adult film contract with Wicked Pictures.
Daniels:
"I was one of the youngest — if not the youngest adult — feature director."
She rattles off her awards as a director.
She is racing through her testimony — speaking much faster than in the Michael Avenatti trial, as I recall.
(...)
Adam Klasfeld
@KlasfeldReports
·
6h
Daniels recalls meeting at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
"He did a lot of cameos and things like that," Daniels says, adding she was 27 at the time. Trump, she says, was older than her father.
Daniels, pointing in the former president's direction, identifies Trump sitting at the defense table.
Exhibit: Schiller's contact information on Stormy Daniels' phone.
The witness authenticates the exhibit.
Schiller's contact info was entered on her phone as "Keith Trump."
"I didn't know his last name. I just knew who he worked for," Daniels says.
Daniels says a publicist made her reconsider her position of "F no" to dinner with Trump:
"It will make a great story," the publicist said, according to Daniels. "He's a business guy. What could possibly go wrong?" (laughs)
She adds those were actually his words.
Hoffinger reminds Daniels, maybe for the third time, to slow down for the court reporter.
She is speaking marginally slower now.
Daniels recalls visiting Trump's hotel suite, where he was wearing a Hefner-esque robe.
"I told him to go change, and he obliged, very politely," she says.
She adds that he quickly came back in a dress shirt. The room, she says, was "three times the size of my apartment."
Another reminder from the prosecutor for Daniels to slow down for the court reporter.
Daniels:
"He asked how I got involved in the adult entertainment business."
She says she had to correct the "misconception" that adult films don't have plots — and they're all cheap lines about the pizza boy.
Then, she recalls being surprised by Trump's perceptive business questions.
Some of those: Are there any unions? Do you get residuals? Do you get health insurance? Do you get tested for STDs? Is there a doctor on staff?
Daniels: "These were very thought-out business questions."
This leads to an extensive back-and-forth about STD testing and other safety precautions, and Daniels discloses that condoms were always a must, even with her husband — even though she's "allergic" to latex, she says.
Daniels testifies that Trump told her that he and his wife don't sleep in the same room, sparking an audible response in the gallery of the coutroom.
Daniels recounts her famous story about spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine, swirling the imaginary mag above her head on the witness stand.
Q: Where did you swat him?
A: Right on the butt.
A little earlier:
Justice Merchan joined the prosecutor in reminding Daniels to slow down.
She seems more nervous here than in Michael Avenatti's trial.
Morning recess.