As porn star Stormy Daniels’s testimony unfolds, what has always been obvious becomes even more explicit: The point of this trial is to bruise Donald Trump politically — to humiliate him with a tawdry sexual episode from nearly 20 years ago that is utterly unnecessary to prove the charges in the indictment (even as those charges have been distorted by Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney); and to brand Trump a “convicted felon” so that his Democratic opponent, President Biden, can refer to him that way in the run-up to the 2024 election, after which — probably a year or more after which — any convictions from this kangaroo court will be overturned on appeal.
Bragg’s prosecutors have elicited from the porn actress — she was 27 and Trump 60 at the time of their 2006 hotel-suite encounter — that Trump assured her that he and his wife did not sleep in the same bedroom; that she (Stormy) reminded him of his daughter Ivanka; that she told him to his face he was “rude,” “arrogant,” and “pompous”; that the now-former president and de facto Republican presidential nominee became more polite after she “spanked” him with a rolled-up magazine.
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