“You Made All This Up,” Stormy Daniels’s attorney asks in a heated exchange during the Trump-Hush Money trial

Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump’s defense lawyer squared off on Thursday during the porn star’s scathing testimony’s cross-examination. The judge even criticized the line of inquiry for sometimes veering into the weird.

Daniels was fast on her feet and walked a tightrope between stubbornness and vulnerability throughout a regularly aggressive interrogation. The jury observed as the defense attacked her credibility and mocked her career.

During the most intense testimony to date in the criminal trial, she clapped back for hours. The main question in the trial is whether or not Daniels received a $130,000 hush money payment that was fraudulently covered up with the intention of influencing the 2016 presidential election.

Throughout her interrogation, Trump’s attorney, Susan Necheles, argued time and time again that Daniels, 45, had made up her account of a single, impromptu sexual encounter with the president.

At one point, the attorney said, “You made all this up, right?” to which Daniels sharply replied, “No.”

Daniels accused Necheles of putting words in her mouth on many occasions. “You’re trying to make me say it’s changed, but it hasn’t changed,” Daniels claimed, citing her version of events.

Team Trump tried to paint Daniels as a sleazy, money-grubbing, and dishonest person.

Necheles questioned Daniels about her choice to write a book that detailed the incident and her choice to endorse branded goods.

“Akin to Mr. Trump,” Daniels retorted.

In an apparent attempt to paint Daniels as insane, Necheles mentioned Daniels’ interest in tarot cards and the paranormal at one of the most bizarre moments of the nearly eight hours of testimony.

She then proceeded to portray Daniels as a fabulist, making fun of her experience as a director and screenwriter of pornographic movies and claiming that this gave her skill at distorting the facts.

Necheles said, “So you have a lot of experience making phony stories about sex appear to be real?”

Daniels said, “Wow, that’s not how I would put it.”

“There is actual sex. The names of the characters may vary. However, the sex is real. That’s the reason it’s pornographic,” the witness went on.

She said, “I would have written it to be a lot better,” if the rumor about Trump were false.

Once again, MISTRIAL DENIED
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She said that she doesn’t.

However, a prosecutor subsequently said that Daniels was called to the stand to explain why Trump would have sought to conceal her narrative at the end of his presidential campaign, not for that reason.

That justification was raised at a motion hearing as Team Trump attempted to file for a mistrial once again, after the jurors’ day-end dismissal.

Before Judge Juan Merchan ridiculed Trump’s attorneys in front of him, it was once again refused.

“I don’t agree with your story that this is a fresh account. He seemed clearly agitated as he added, “I disagree that there is any shifting narrative.

Merchan, in an unprecedented attack on the defense team’s legal strategy, said that the defense’s insistence that Daniels had staged the meeting opened the door for the prosecution to present contradictory evidence, a good deal of it graphic.

Merchan said that Necheles “drill[ed] it over and over and over again into the jury’s ears” by pounding on the precise information they were using as justification for a mistrial for a large portion of her cross.

During his dramatic criticism, he said, “I don’t understand the reason for that,” querying why the defense had not raised an objection when such information was presented during direct questioning.

Furthermore, Merchan said that Trump’s team has been disparaging Daniels from the start, including in the opening remarks, when they “pit your client’s word against Ms. Daniels’ word.”

Using a phrase for the prosecution, he stated, “That, in my mind, allows the people to do what they can to rehabilitate her and corroborate her story.”

“We have denied your request for a mistrial.”