Stormy Daniels Tangles With Trump’s Lawyer Over Claim Of Sexual Encounter: “If That Story Was Untrue, I Would Have Written It To Be A Lot Better”

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A lawyer for Donald Trump continued to hammer away this morning at changing details over the years in Stormy Daniels’ accounts of a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump — and got plenty of pushback from the adult entertainer turned high-profile witness in Trump’s hush money trial.

During rapid fire, back-and-forth sparring that lasted almost three hours, Susan Necheles also said that Daniels — after collecting $130,000 for a non-disclosure agreement — eagerly sold her memoir, hawked merchandise, appeared on a reality TV show, sat for a documentary film, advertised herself as a spiritual medium, and toured as an adult dancer using her “supposed” sexual encounter with Trump as the hook.

Necheles estimated that Daniels had made $1 million or more from assorted ventures after becoming known for an adulterous sexual encounter with Trump, and she said Daniels’ once told a writer for Slate “you either wanted money or you were going to hurt him politically.” Daniels shot back that she was just doing her job and paying off the “extraordinary” legal bills she had amassed by tangling with Trump.

She testified that she “hated” the marketing for a U.S. tour of strip clubs, billed as “Make America Horny Again” — a play on Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan — although she did post the promotional posters to her Instagram.