United States | “You made this all up, didn’t you?” – Trump’s defense grilled the porn star heard as a witness

“You you made this all up, didn’t you?”

Among other things, like this Donald Trump’s the defense grilled the porn star known as Stormy Daniels Stephanie Clifford in a criminal trial on Thursday.

The answer of Clifford, who was heard as a witness, was of The New York Times according to determined:

“No.”

Trump’s lawyer asked for answers to all of this Susan Necheles meant Clifford’s description of events in a hotel suite in Lake Tahoe nearly two decades ago.

Clifford has said that she had sex with Trump in a hotel suite at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in July 2006. Trump has denied that this happened.

Trump’s lawyer at the time allegedly paid Clifford $130,000 in bribes before the 2016 US presidential election to keep Clifford quiet about the events at Lake Tahoe.

Trump, who is running for the White House again, is now accused of accounting crimes related to the bribe money paid.

Opening statements of an extraordinary criminal trial was heard New York at the Manhattan Courthouse in April.

This week, Clifford has been heard in court, whose testimony lasted a total of almost eight hours on Tuesday and Thursday, reports the news agency AFP, among other things.

Manhattan in the courthouse, according to the US media and news agencies, the defense tried to portray Clifford as a money-hungry extortionist who sought fame and fortune with the help of Trump.

The defense also sought to show that Clifford’s account of the events at Lake Tahoe has changed and is therefore inconsistent.

“You’re trying to get me to say that it [selostus] changed, but it hasn’t changed,” Clifford responded to the defense attorney’s questioning, according to the news agency Reuters.

The New York Times describes Clifford as oscillating between defiance and vulnerability on Thursday as the defense asked him probing questions about changing his story.

He defended himself by saying, among other things, that the sex in his films was “very real, just like what happened to me in that room.”

By that room, Clifford was referring to the hotel room where Trump and Clifford allegedly had sex.

In court we also went through old insults. Trump has invited Clifford “horse face”Clifford again Trump “orange butt”.

“I’m not a human toilet. So if they want to make fun of me, I can make fun of them,” Clifford said Thursday, according to The New York Times.

Clifford also said that if the story about having sex with Trump had been made up, he would have made up a much better story.

“I didn’t have to write this,” he said, according to AFP.

Previously week Clifford told the court About the events at Lake Tahoe in such detail that the judge repeatedly told him to stay on topic.

According to Clifford, Trump was in the suite in his satin pajamas. During the meeting, when Clifford returned from the bathroom, he found Trump lying on the bed, only wearing underwear and a t-shirt.

According to US media and news agencies, Clifford told the court, among other things, about Trump’s underwear and the fact that he did not use a condom.

According to the defense, Clifford’s detailed description of sexual intercourse with Trump has caused irreparable damage.

A porn star in its startlingness, the testimony was, according to The New York Times, still “some kind of filler”.

The newspaper writes that jumping a married man aside or paying for silence are not illegal in themselves. Trump is suspected of accounting crimes, and Clifford knew nothing about them.

Prosecutor Susan Hoffinger has previously reasoned that Clifford’s testimony is needed, among other things, to complete the course of events.

According to The New York Times, Trump’s former lawyer is scheduled to be heard as a witness in court next week Michael Cohen. It was Cohen who arranged the money to be cheated.

Trump has denied any wrongdoing and has claimed the trial is part of a political chase.