Stormy Cloud Rising in Lower Manhattan

Stormy Daniels is not a necessary witness in Trump’s trial, but she would be an embarrassing one.

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Left: Stormy Daniels at the Gossip Gentleman club in Long Island, N.Y., in 2018. Right: Then-president Donald Trump at Joint Base Andrews, Md., in 2021.

Eduardo Munoz, Carlos Barria/Reuters

Various media reports indicate that porn star Stormy Daniels is going to take the witness stand in the Trump trial in lower Manhattan, perhaps as soon as this morning.

It is important to bear in mind that Daniels, who claims to have had a consensual sexual interaction with Trump in 2006, is not an essential witness in the case. The 34 inflated felony charges in the indictment allege that Trump fraudulently caused the records of his business to be falsified between February and December 2017. Daniels has no competent testimony to give about any of that: She was paid by Michael Cohen in late October 2016, and had no participation in either Trump’s reimbursement of Cohen or in how it was booked by the Trump Organization.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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