Oh Alan, for godssakes, the jury knows who’s on trial and who’s not. Trumpie’s motive is the reciprocal of Stormy’s: If she was extorting (or if there is reasonable doubt about her motive) then Trumpie’s motive was to protect himself and his family from extortion, not electoral damage control. 

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Alan FeuerReporting from inside the courthouse

What’s interesting about this defense strategy is that Daniels is, of course, not on trial here. While the issue of her truthfulness about her motives in selling her story goes to the larger question of her credibility about things like, say, her sexual encounter with Trump, Trump’s own motives in seeking to silence Daniels’s story about that encounter are much more central to the charges in this case.