Daniels says she wouldn't call herself and Michael Cohen "buddies" (2024)

Trump attorney Susan Necheles asks Stormy Daniels if she hated Michael Cohen when she made the allegation about the man threatening her in the car park.

And she added: Now you're "buddies."

Daniels says she wouldn't call them "buddies."

Given the tense atmosphere in the courtroom as Trump's attorney Susan Necheles presses Stormy Daniels in various ways in order to damage the adult film star's credibility, it's worth remembering that at the beginning of the day Trump was angry about not knowing who today's witness was.

Trump railed against the timing in which his team became aware of Tuesday’s witness in his criminal trial in an early morning Truth Social post that has since been taken down.

Before the jury came in Tuesday morning, Necheles renewed the defense team's objection to Daniels testifying.

"We want to renew our objection this morning. We’re informed the second witness will be Stormy Daniels. We want to renew our objection to her testifying, particularly about any details of any sexual acts," she said.

Prosecutors have made a point of not sharing witness plans with Trump, citing his various social media posts attacking potential witnesses.

The court is taking a short afternoon break. Stormy Daniels is expected to resume her testimony soon.

Donald Trump pursed his lips and exhaled as he walked down the aisle.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles continues to ask Stormy Daniels about her testimony that she was threatened in 2011 by a man in a parking lot.

"This man never existed, did he?" Susan Necheles asks.

"He absolutely existed," Daniels says.

Necheles then asks if the story was made up.

“None of it's made up,” Daniels says.

Daniels says that Michael Avenatti hired a sketch artist to recreate a description of the man and offered $100,000 to whoever could identify him.

Stormy Daniels is now testifying that she told the story about her sexual encounter with Trump on a radio show in 2007.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles clarifies that she wrote names down on a paper of famous people she'd slept with.

Daniels says she mentioned Lake Tahoe and a hotel room which was "obviously" about Trump.

Necheles asks Daniels whether she told Anderson Cooper, "I never told this story publicly before because I was threatened." She says that's correct.

Susan Necheles asks Stormy Daniels if she believed Michael Cohen sent "that man in the garage," referring to a 2011 incident where Daniels says a man threatened her in a parking lot while she was on her way to a mommy-and-me class with her infant daughter.

Daniels says that's what she thought at the time, but she was wrong.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is drilling down on what Stormy Daniels did afterward being threatened in 2011.

Necheles is challenging Daniels with her own words in her book "Full Disclosure," in which she wrote that she did the exercise class after the man allegedly threatened her in the parking lot.

Daniels says it was "incorrect" that she had suggested she went to her exercise class. She says she went into the bathroom with her daughter and lied claiming her baby had a "blowout."

On the stand she said, "There's no way I could've possibly done the class as scared as I was."

Stormy Daniels is being asked about the time she was threatened by a man in Las Vegas.

She confirms she didn't tell anybody about the story until 2018 when she agreed it was "probably" in an interview with Anderson Cooper.

"I kept all of it secret from my husband," Daniels says.

"Your daughter's life was in jeopardy and you did not tell her father," Trump attorney Susan Necheles asks.

"Right," Daniels replies.

Trump attorney Susan Necheles is now asking Stormy Daniels about her statements about being threatened in 2011.

Necheles asks it it's true that she didn't tell anyone about the supposed threat. Daniels says. that she told her close friends.

"You didn’t tell your husband, father of child?" Necheles asks.

"Correct," Daniels said.