Trump exposed as a 'lame desperate creepy old man' by latest testimony: analyst
American voters would have been left gagging if Donald Trump's lawyer hadn't paid off adult film star Stormy Daniels in the weeks before the 2016 election, according to a legal analyst.
Daniels testified in lurid detail about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, who she said compared her to his daughter and dangled an offer to appear on his "Apprentice" reality TV show to coerce her into sex, and former federal prosecutor Kristy Greenberg told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that her testimony was crucial to prosecutors' case.
"I thought the cringe was kind of the point," Greenberg said. "This was the story that Donald Trump did not want America to hear and this is why he was willing to pay the money to her. A guy who we have heard is very frugal was willing to make sure this [$130,000] payment was made so that America didn't hear about him showing up, you know, in his Hugh Hefner satin pajamas and [that he] didn't sleep in the same bed with his wife and a woman he wanted to sleep with who reminded him of his daughter. You had all of these things that portrayed Donald Trump as really this kind of lame, desperate, creepy old man, and that is a story he wouldn't have wanted to get out."
"If that had gotten out, it would have been make America gag again, because that is how it felt in the overflow room there [at the courthouse]," Greenberg said. "People were having visceral reactions to what she was saying, so I think, again, it just drove home the prosecution's point this was the story he did not want to get out and that is why he made the payment."
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Greenberg followed up on her televised comments a short time later on X, where she said that Daniels' testimony had provided a crucial element necessary to prove the case against Trump, who has been charged with falsifying financial documents to hide reimbursements to his lawyer for payments made to the porn actress that amounted to illegal in-kind contributions to his presidential campaign.
"This is the story of a dirty old man who had to dangle a spot on his reality show to get a woman to sleep with him," Greenberg tweeted. "And that would have been the nail in the coffin after the Access Hollywood tape. So Trump had to make sure she got paid off to shut her up before the election. Stormy Daniels provided critical testimony to show Trump’s motive for making the hush money payment before the election and covering it up."
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