Defense attorneys grilled porn star Stormy Daniels during Donald Trump‘s 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.
Trump’s attorneys highlighted how Daniels shopped around her story right before the 2016 presidential election before negotiating through a lawyer a deal that involved Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen paying her $130,000 to keep quiet about the alleged affair.
“At this point, you were asking for money, you wanted money from President Trump?” Trump attorney Susan Necheles asked, according to reports from the courtroom by CNN.
Daniels denied the claim.
“I was asking to sell my story to publications to get the truth out,” Daniels said.
Necheles pointed out that Daniels approached media outlets, including the website Slate,
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