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8-5-2024 < Attack the System 20 218 words
 
It’s going to be a very tight race, decided by a very small handful of voters.

Stormy takes the stand: This week, porn star Stormy Daniels, whose tryst with Trump (and pocketing of hush money payments) is central to the criminal trial against Trump, took the stand.


“The charges against Mr. Trump stem from her story of sex with him during that 2006 celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, a story she was shopping a decade later, in the closing days of the presidential campaign,” reports The New York Times. “Mr. Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, paid Ms. Daniels $130,000 in hush money before Election Day, and the former president is accused of falsifying business records to cover up reimbursements for Mr. Cohen.”


As for the sex itself, Daniels’ testimony seemed to be tinged with trauma rhetoric, claiming that even though she never said no outright, there was a “power imbalance” and implied that it was something less than consensual. “I was staring up at the ceiling, wondering how I got there,” she said on the stand.


As for the hush money, Daniels claimed that “my motivation wasn’t money,” which is…a little confusing, given that she accepted a large sum in 2016. (The judge, once the jury was out of the room, said that Daniels might have “credibility issues.”)


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