Stormy Daniels Takes Manhattan

It’s hard to cross-examine a witness who is telling the truth and can’t be embarrassed.

Susan Necheles, one of Trump’s defense attorneys, went all-in on attacking Stormy Daniel’s credibility, alternating between claiming she had made the whole thing up and trying to portray her as a flaky fantasist. From what I’ve seen of her testimony, it didn’t work. For example, who do you think came out better in these two exchanges?

Necheles: “You’re celebrating the indictment by selling things from your store?”

Daniels: “Not unlike Mr. Trump.”

Or how about this exchange as described by CNN.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is now going over Stormy Daniels' venture to create a show about the paranormal. She asks Daniels if she has claimed her house in New Orleans is haunted.

Daniels confirms the venture, adding they brought in experts.

“It was a lot of interesting and unexplained activity,” she says. "A lot of the activity was completely debunked as a giant possum.”

Daniels is certainly an unusual witness and it’s hard to know what effect she had on the jury. But she gave as good as she got and from what I can tell, she came across as forthcoming and relatable. Yeah, she’s a porn star, and that will put some people – maybe a lot of people – off. But after her two days of testimony, if you had to have a beer with a porn star, I don’t think anyone would disagree that you could do a lot worse than Stormy Daniels.

And one things is 100% certain. If Trump testifies, the jury is going find her a lot more likeable than they do him. Trump is extremely fortunate that this trial isn’t about which one of them the jury finds more believable. The last time Trump got in a he-said-she-said head-butting contest, it cost him 88 million dollars.