We’re now seeing some familiar documents.
They came up
during testimony from Stormy Daniels’ ex-lawyer, Keith Davidson, who negotiated the
payout to Stormy Daniels and managed her response to later reports about the hush
money.
Susan Necheles displays the settlement agreement Daniels
signed in 2016, conveying her $130,000 in exchange of her silence about
allegations of a sexual liaison with Trump.
We go over various aspects of the contract, and Daniels agrees to a certain set of facts.
“I signed this based upon what my attorney suggested I do,”
Daniels says, noting she is not a lawyer.
Trump’s attorney again pulls up an old piece of evidence:
the 2018 statement that her lawyer Keith Davidson wrote for her, denying reports
in the Wall Street Journal that she had been paid for her silence and
that she allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump.
“Let me be clear I did not write this,” Daniels says. “It was given to me and was I told I had to
sign it.”
Davidson testified earlier in the trial that he had
meticulously crafted the statement so that Daniels would not technically be
lying (she does not allege an “affair” with Trump, for example, but rather a
single encounter) and that he had her sign the document.