3:15 pm ET, May 7, 2024
Here’s what Stormy Daniels said after retaking the stand during direct examination
From CNN’s Christina Zdanowicz and Aditi Sangal
Stormy Daniels returned to the stand after Donald Trump’s legal team unsuccessfully moved for a mistrial. She outlined how the previous hush money deal fell apart because the funds weren’t paid on time and how the deal was revived.
Here’s what to know about her latest testimony:
A new NDA: After the previous deal fell apart because the funds weren’t paid on time, Daniels signed a new nondisclosure agreement on October 28, 2016. After legal and agent fees, Daniels said she ended up with about $96,000. About a week later, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about American Media Inc.’s “catch and kill” deals involving Daniels and Karen McDougal. Daniels said she couldn’t respond to the WSJ’s request for comment because of the NDA.
WSJ published a story about her payment: Daniels said she again chose to respect the NDA and not respond to WSJ when they reached out for a second story in January, which was about her $130,000 payment. This story, she herself, turned her life into “chaos.” After the story published, InTouch Weekly magazine published the story about her interview from 2011, which she didn’t want out there and didn’t get paid for as she was originally promised.
Denying her denial: She replied that she didn’t want to sign a January 10, 2018, statement denying the sexual encounter with Trump because it wasn’t true. She said she had signed the statement in a way that was in a way that she had never signed her name before as a “tip off” to Jimmy Kimmel, whose show she was about to appear on.
