A recording of a juicy phone conversation capturing Stormy Daniels’ attorney claiming his porn star client had berated him and wanted money “more than anything” was played for jurors at Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush money trial Thursday.
Lawyer Keith Davidson was heard telling Michael Cohen that Daniels “wanted this money more than you can ever imagine,” as he put pressure on Trump’s former “fixer” to pay her in exchange for keeping quiet about her story she’d had a tryst with the ex-president.
“I remember hearing her on the phone saying, ‘You — f–king Keith Davidson — you better settle this goddamn story,’ ” Davidson could be heard telling Cohen on the expletive-laden recording.
The taped April 4, 2018, phone call between the attorneys featured multiple expletives, with Davidson claiming that Daniels was yelling and screaming at him while calling him a “p—y,” all to put pressure on him for a good deal.
He added that Daniels allegedly said that if Trump lost the election, “we lose all f–king leverage” and “this case is worth zero.”
Daniels — born Stephanie Clifford — denied Davidson’s claims as she testified against Trump for the second day in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“No I did not, actually, I never yelled at Keith Davidson,” she said during questioning by Trump’s attorneys. “It sounds like a threat from Keith Davidson.”
She also told jurors that she didn’t care about money, but rather just wanted “to get the truth out,” about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump.
Trump, 77, is on trial for allegedly trying to cover-up a $130,000 payout Cohen made to Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election to keep her from going public about claims she had a one-night-stand with the then-candidate in 2006.
Daniels was noticeable calmer and more composed than her first stint on the stand Tuesday, where she spoke a mile a minute and gestured wildly while describing in graphic detail her “brief” sexual encounter with Trump in the “missionary position” all while he wasn’t wearing a condom.
Trump’s lawyer, Susan Necheles, continued tense questioning Thursday trying to imply that Daniels had, in fact, extorted Trump for the payment.
The jury appeared riveted, looking back and forth between Daniels and Necheles, as if they were watching a tennis match.
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All the while, from the defense table Trump appeared to watch intently, but silently, following Judge Juan Merchan Tuesday warning through his lawyer to remain quiet after he was seen mouthing swears, which the judge said could intimidate witnesses.
There were numerous lighter moments Thursday as Daniels cracked jokes including telling jurors that even after starring in over 100 porn films and seeing countless naked men, she was still surprised to see a half-naked Trump laying in his boxers on the bed when she came out of the bathroom.
“If I came out of the bathroom and saw an older man in his underwear that I wasn’t expecting to see there, yeah,” she said, she’d be caught off guard.
Necheles tried to get Daniels to admit she “made all this up” but Daniels stayed firm saying she didn’t lie about what happened and maintained her story remained consistent — despite confrontations with some inconsistencies in prior media interviews.
Daniels has testified that she met Trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe and slept with him that same night after meeting him at his luxury hotel suite where he met her wearing Hugh Hefner-style “silk or satin” pajamas before she asked him to change.
Daniels wrapped up testifying just before 1 p.m. following roughly six hours total on the stand over Tuesday and Thursday.