Trump Trial

On the second day of Stormy Daniels in the Trump Trial, defense lawyer Susan Necheles asked about her "Make America Horny" tour and whether her boyfriend of the time had thought she'd lost her mind.

As to the tour, Daniels said she hadn't named it, and didn't like the name. Questions about attacks by and apparently on the ex-boyfriend were excluded by Justice Merchan.

Defense lawyer Todd Blanche, who sat chatting with Trump during many of the sidebars, ended the morning by saying he would be moving to exclude Karen McDougal's testimony, after again moving for a mistrial based on Daniels. It was set for 4 pm. Necheles compared the witness' story now in 2024 to what she told InTouch magazine in 2011. Not just whether she felt threatened - then and now, she said no - but whether she and Trump had had dinner. Where I come from, Daniels answered, you can have dinner without putting anything in your mouth.

Stormy I

When I went to the Harrah's penthouse

The orange man was there in pyjamas

I told him he looked like Hugh Hefner

Then asked for a chance on The Apprentice

After I looked in his Dopp kit

He struck a pose in his boxers

Soon I was under him

And now I'm here in court.

Sure it's helped my career

This single short act with a tall man

Still I can say I hate the orange turd

Why'd he have to sue me for fees?

Now this old crow

Glowering at me

And it's not over

This cross I'm on

Some opined that Necheles had gone on too long on cross, and paradoxically turned it into a rape case. But if not a mistrial, could this all get any conviction reversed, a la Harvey Weinstein? As Daniels was on re-direct shown nasty tweets it was reminiscent of E. Jean Carroll v. Trump just down that street in SDNY

Stormy II - Pearl Necklace

Thinks she's so smart

The orange man's gray sword

Performing as surely as I did

While trying to shame me

Good luck, pearl Necklace

This is fourth in an Inner City Press series: Voir Dire, Peck, Davidson and Hope. Next up: Michael Cohen