{"id":2240935,"date":"2024-05-09T13:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-highlight-how-stormy-daniels-cashed-in-on-affair-story\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T13:20:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T17:20:39","slug":"trump-attorneys-highlight-how-stormy-daniels-cashed-in-on-affair-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-highlight-how-stormy-daniels-cashed-in-on-affair-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s lawyers emphasize Stormy Daniels&#8217; profit from affair tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-attorneys-highlight-how-stormy-daniels-cashed-in-on-affair-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2240935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-sets-date-for-trumps-hush-money-trial-and-the-timing-could-heavily-impact-the-2024-election\/\" title=\"Trial date set for Trump's hush money case, with potential impact on 2024 election\">hush\u2063 money trial<\/a>, Stormy Daniels was questioned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">defense attorneys<\/a> about her earnings from disclosing a sexual encounter with\u2062 him. Trump&#8217;s lawyers highlighted \u200dhow she sold her story before the 2016\u200c election and negotiated a\u2064 deal \u2064through Michael Cohen, Trump&#8217;s former attorney, who paid $130,000 for \u200cher\u200c silence. \u2063The trial\u200b revealed details of\u200d her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-regularly-abuses-nyu-students-nyu-keeps-taking-chinese-money-anyway\/\" title=\"China Regularly Abuses NYU Students. NYU Keeps Taking Chinese Money Anyway.\">lucrative dealings<\/a>. Defense attorneys questioned Stormy Daniels during Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money trial about her earnings from revealing\u2063 a sexual encounter with him. Trump&#8217;s\u200b legal team emphasized her pre-2016 election story sale and a $130,000 deal brokered by Michael Cohen, Trump&#8217;s ex-lawyer, for her \u200bsilence.\u2063 The trial exposed insights into her profitable transactions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Defense attorneys grilled porn star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stormy-daniels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Stormy Daniels<\/a> during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-slams-corrupt-legal-system-following-sussmann-acquittal\/\" title=\"Trump Slams Corrupt Legal System Following Sussmann Acquittal\">attorneys highlighted<\/a> how Daniels shopped around her story right before the 2016 presidential election before negotiating through a lawyer a deal that involved Trump\u2019s former attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-cohen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Michael Cohen\">Michael Cohen<\/a> paying her $130,000 to keep quiet about the alleged affair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this point, you were asking for money, you wanted money from President Trump?\u201d Trump attorney Susan Necheles asked, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-hush-money-trial-05-09-24\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>reports<\/a> from the courtroom by CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was asking to sell my story to publications to get the truth out,\u201d Daniels said.<\/p>\n<p>Necheles pointed out that Daniels approached media outlets, including the website <em>Slate<\/em>, about Trump right before the election but that <em>Slate<\/em> would not offer her money for the story.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels was also confronted about why she opted to enter into a lucrative nondisclosure agreement with Cohen rather than have her story published in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels said it was \u201cto get my story protected by a paper trail so my family wouldn\u2019t get hurt when the story came out,\u201d adding that a media report would put a target on her.<\/p>\n<p>Necheles then focused on an interview Daniels did in 2018 with <em>60 Minutes<\/em> in which Daniels went into extended detail for the first time about her experience with Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou wanted to make more money, right?\u201d Necheles asked about the interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, that\u2019s why I did <em>60 Minutes<\/em> for free,\u201d Daniels responded.<\/p>\n<p>Necheles 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.<\/p>\n<p>Necheles\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys have sought to discredit Daniels\u2019s claims that money was not what motivated her to sell her story about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Donald Trump&#8217;s hush money trial, defense attorneys questioned Stormy Daniels about her earnings from disclosing a sexual encounter with the former president. 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