{"id":2241847,"date":"2024-05-10T13:50:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-bedford-says-stormy-danielss-testimony-made-trump-out-as-sympathetic-figure\/"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T17:52:37","slug":"sarah-bedford-says-stormy-danielss-testimony-made-trump-out-as-sympathetic-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-bedford-says-stormy-danielss-testimony-made-trump-out-as-sympathetic-figure\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Bedford argues that Stormy Daniels&#8217;s testimony portrayed Trump as a &#8216;sympathetic figure."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsarah-bedford-says-stormy-danielss-testimony-made-trump-out-as-sympathetic-figure%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=2241847&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>Sarah Bedford\u2064 commented on\u200c Stormy \u200bDaniels&#8217;s recent testimony, suggesting it \u2063may have had\u200b a more detrimental effect on prosecutors targeting former President Donald Trump than on Trump himself. The testimony arose from \u2064Trump&#8217;s ongoing New York criminal trial, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michael-avenatti-claims-he-is-willing-to-testify-in-trump-hush-money-trial\/\" title=\"Michael Avenatti expresses readiness to testify in Trump hush-money trial\">faces 34 felony charges related<\/a> to manipulating financial \u200drecords to allegedly silence multiple \u2062women. The \u2063statement by\u2063 Sarah Bedford\u200c regarding Stormy Daniels&#8217;s testimony highlights a potential setback\u2062 for prosecutors pursuing Donald Trump \u200bcompared to its impact on Trump\u2063 himself. The testimony emerged within Trump&#8217;s active New York criminal trial, where he confronts 34 felony charges linked to altering financial records to \u200bpurportedly silence numerous women.  <\/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 data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/sarah-bedford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sarah Bedford \">Sarah Bedford <\/a>said porn star <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/stormy-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Sarah Bedford \">Stormy Daniels<\/a>\u2018s testimony from earlier this week might have hurt prosecutors going after former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> more than himself.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels\u2019s testimony came from Trump\u2019s criminal trial in New York, where the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manhattan-da-moves-to-stop-trump-from-looking-at-trial-documents-without-supervision\/\" title=\"Manhattan DA Moves To Stop Trump From Looking at Trial Documents Without Supervision\">facing 34 felony counts<\/a> of falsifying business records to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lara-trump-suggests-trump-trials-are-backfiring-on-democrats-case-of-sylvester-the-cat-and-tweety-bird\/\" title=\"Lara Trump: Trump trials backfiring on Democrats like \u2018Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird\">allegedly pay\u00a0hush\u00a0money<\/a> to multiple women. Bedford pointed out that since Daniels took the stand to share the salacious details of her alleged affair with Trump, prosecutors have canceled the testimony of <em>Playboy<\/em> model Karen McDougal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will no longer appear because I think the prosecution, maybe, recognized that Stormy Daniels went after Trump so hard she perhaps made a sympathetic figure,\u201d Bedford said on Fox Business\u2019s <em>Cavuto: Coast to Coast<\/em>. \u201cSo it\u2019s an extremely weak case, and I think even a conviction would be hard \u2026 for that to dent Trump\u2019s support that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors were reprimanded by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/2994056\/trump-new-york-trial-judge-scolds-prosecutors-stormy-daniels-sex-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Judge Juan Merchan\">Judge Juan Merchan<\/a> for exceeding the scope of the trial, which surrounds the falsification of business records. According to Merchan, further details of the alleged affairs were \u201cunnecessary\u201d to prosecute the case.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, said she received $130,000 from Trump\u2019s attorney, Michael Cohen, in 2016 not to disclose the affair. Allegedly, Cohen was subsequently reimbursed, which is the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the political damage here is really minimal because the fact that Trump was a philanderer with women is baked in at this point in his public perception,\u201d Bedford said. <\/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>While\u00a0Trump\u00a0has 88 felony\u00a0charges\u00a0against him filed by prosecutors across the nation, Trump\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-big-problem-with-the-stormy-daniels-hush-money-case-against-trump\/\" title=\"The Big Problem With The Stormy Daniels Hush Money Case Against Trump\">hush\u00a0money case<\/a> is the only criminal trial that has the potential to reach a verdict before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump denies ever having sex with Daniels. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Bedford suggested that Stormy Daniels&#8217;s recent testimony could have had a more damaging impact on prosecutors pursuing former President Donald Trump than on Trump himself. The testimony emerged in Trump&#8217;s New York criminal trial, involving 34 felony charges of manipulating financial records to purportedly silence multiple individuals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2241848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-08-May-2024-07-33-AM-7126-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-08-May-2024-07-33-AM-7126-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}