Thursday, May 09, 2024

May 9, 2024, 10:33 a.m. ET3 minutes ago3 minutes ago

Maggie HabermanReporting from inside the courthouse

Susan Necheles now brings up something that was inevitably going to be part of cross-examination: Stormy Daniels’s work as a medium. “You’ve made a show and a podcast claiming you can speak with dead people, right?” The goal is to make her seem unreliable as a narrator. Daniels tries to make a joke around one her paranormal interests, and the jurors don’t react.

They’ve tuned her out. She has no credibility. The prosecution has shit-splashed themselves with her.