We now see some familiar files.
Stormi Daniels’ former attorney Keith Davidson, who negotiated the payments to Stormi Daniels and sought to get her to respond to subsequent reports of the hush money, raised these issues during testimony.
Susan Necheles showed off the settlement agreement signed by Daniels in 2016, in which Daniels paid her $130,000 in exchange for keeping silent about allegations of a sexual relationship with Trump.
We reviewed various aspects of the contract and Daniels agreed with certain facts.
“I signed this document on the advice of my attorney,” Daniels said, noting that she is not a lawyer.
Trump’s lawyers again brought up an old piece of evidence: a 2018 statement written for her by her lawyer, Keith Davidson, denying the Wall Street Journal’s claims that she was paid for her silence and her alleged relationship with Donald Trump ·Reports of Trump’s affair.
“Let me be clear, I didn’t write this,” Daniels said. “It was given to me and I was told I had to sign it.”
Davidson testified earlier in the trial that he carefully drafted the statement so that Daniels would not technically lie (for example, she did not claim to have had an “affair” with Trump, but rather a contact) and that he had She signed the document.
