Katyal on Daniels: Trump Lawyer’s Strategy Was Trying to Shame Her for Her Profession, But I Think It Spectacularly Backfired

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KATYAL: "I think she was quite credible. You know, even before stormy came on we have seen Trump’s former friend to former friend turn on Trump in the trial, and the whole thing is like a bad feud, it reminds me of Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and, that was the prelude to Stormy Daniels coming to testify. Some of the testimony on her first day straight into things I think but he really needed to hear. It did not bolster her credibility by recalling certain details, but it did become extraneous. She seemed incredibly credible when she left the jury. The strategy is essentially trying to shame her for her profession and stuff. I think it spectacularly fired, and it goes to show, Trump’s opening statement, no affair, that the $130,000 Trump never paid and so on, and all of that has and blown out of the water already by the testimony from Stormy Daniels about the affair where she seems far more credible than the absent Donald Trump, who it looks like he is not going to take the stand to contradict Stormy Daniels’ testimony, and what his lawyer said Trump never paid, we learned this week Trump admitted in another court proceeding he did pay the $130,000. So, right now, it’s not looking good for the defense. Their help I think is to tear down the credibility of the last big one is, Michael Cohen."