Prosecutors argued successfully to Justice Merchan that the detail and repetitive testimony that they elicited from Storm was “corroboration” of her testimony. But that is fallacious. A witness does not corroborate herself. Repetition of "witch hunt" does not make it so (It will get suckers though, since one is born every minute). Internal “corroboration” is not corroboration. It's Russian. Corroboration comes external to the witness. The prosecution does not have a key witness who could have corroborated Storm:
Schiller was the person who got her phone number for Mr. Trump after they met at a celebrity golf tournament in 2006 in Lake Tahoe, Nev., Ms. Daniels testified this week. Mr. Schiller also invited Ms. Daniels to meet Mr. Trump for dinner that night, she said, and let her into Mr. Trump’s hotel suite when she showed up.
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But where is Mr. Schiller? Prosecutors have not called him to testify, and there has been no sign that they will…
The prosecutors appear to have tailored their case to the witnesses who they believe will be more or less forthcoming about what they saw. …
…Schiller is a former officer with the New York Police Department…
