‘s hush money trial on Thursday about how much money she had raked in after she publicly claimed she once had a sexual encounter with the former president.
Trump’s attorneys highlighted how Daniels shopped around her story right before the 2016 presidential election before negotiating through a lawyer a deal that involved Trump’s former attorney“At this point, you were asking for money, you wanted money from President Trump?” Trump attorney Susan Necheles asked, according to“I was asking to sell my story to publications to get the truth out,” Daniels said.
Daniels said it was “to get my story protected by a paper trail so my family wouldn’t get hurt when the story came out,” adding that a media report would put a target on her.in which Daniels went into extended detail for the first time about her experience with Trump.60 MinutesNecheles then pointed out how Daniels was flooded with publicity after the interview and that she raked in nearly a million dollars after it, largely from a book deal.
Necheles’s line of questioning came after defense attorneys first began cross-examining Daniels on Tuesday about whether her negotiations to receive the hush money payment amounted to extortion of Trump.Defense attorneys have sought to discredit Daniels’s claims that money was not what motivated her to sell her story about Trump.
Trump has been accused by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, an elected Democrat, of falsifying records of the payment to hide it after he was elected.
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