Re: Trump lawyers say whore Stormy Daniels refused subpoena outside a Brooklyn bar, papers left 'at her feet'

On 4/18/2024 1:01 AM, Her pussy stinks anyway wrote:
> NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s legal team says it tried serving
> Stormy Daniels a subpoena as she arrived for an event at a bar
> in Brooklyn last month, but the porn actor, who is expected to
> be a witness at the former president’s criminal trial, refused
> to take it and walked away.
> 
> A process server working for Trump’s lawyers said he approached
> Daniels with papers demanding information related to a
> documentary recently released about her life and involvement
> with Trump, but was forced to “leave them at her feet,”
> according to a court filing made public Wednesday.
> 
> “I stated she was served as I identified her and explained to
> her what the documents were,” process server Dominic DellaPorte
> wrote. “She did not acknowledge me and kept walking inside the
> venue, and she had no expression on her face.”
> 
> The encounter, prior to a screening of the “Stormy” film at the
> 3 Dollar Bill nightclub, has touched off a monthlong battle
> between Trump’s lawyers and Daniels’ attorney that continued
> this week as the presumptive Republican nominee’s criminal trial
> began in Manhattan.
> 
> Trump’s lawyers are asking Judge Juan M. Merchan to force
> Daniels to comply with the subpoena. In their filing, they
> included a photo they said DellaPorte took of Daniels as she
> strode away.
> 
> Daniels’ lawyer Clark Brewster claims they never received the
> paperwork. He described the requests as an “unwarranted fishing
> expedition” with no relevance to Trump’s criminal trial.
> 
> “The process — instituted on the eve of trial — appears
> calculated to cause harassment and/or intimidation of a lay
> witness,” Brewster wrote in an April 9 letter to Merchan.
> Brewster didn’t immediately reply to a message from The
> Associated Press seeking comment.
> 
> The hush money case is the first of Trump’s four criminal cases
> to go to trial. Seven jurors have been seated so far. Jury
> selection is set to resume Thursday.
> 
> Daniels is expected to testify about a $130,000 payment she got
> in 2016 from one of Trump’s lawyers at the time, Michael Cohen,
> in order to stop her from speaking publicly about a sexual
> encounter she said she had with Trump years earlier.
> 
> Cohen was later reimbursed by Trump’s company for that payment.
> Trump is accused of falsifying his company’s records to hide the
> nature of that payment, and other work he did to bury negative
> stories during the 2016 campaign.
> 
> Trump pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of
> falsifying business records. He denies having a sexual encounter
> with Daniels. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were
> legitimate legal expenses, and were recorded correctly.
> 
> In a separate filing made public Wednesday, the Manhattan
> district attorney’s office said that if Trump chooses to testify
> at the trial, prosecutors plan to challenge his credibility by
> questioning him about his recent legal setbacks. The filing was
> made last month under seal.
> 
> Trump was recently ordered to pay a $454 million civil penalty
> following a trial in which a judge ruled he had lied about his
> wealth on financial statements. In another trial, a jury said he
> was liable for $83.3 million for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll
> after she accused him of sexual assault.
> 
> Merchan said he plans to hold a hearing Friday to decide whether
> that will be allowed.
> 
> Under New York law, prosecutors can question witnesses about
> past legal matters in certain circumstances. Trump’s lawyers are
> opposed. Trump has said he wants to testify, but he is not
> required to and can always change his mind.
> 
> As for the subpoena dispute, it marks the latest attempt by
> Trump’s lawyers to knock loose potentially damaging information
> about Daniels, a key prosecution witness.
> 
> They are demanding an array of documents related to the
> promotion and editing of the documentary, “Stormy,” which
> explores Daniels’ career in the adult film industry and rise to
> celebrity since her alleged involvement with Trump became
> publicly known.
> 
> They are also requesting Daniels reveal how much, if anything,
> she was compensated for the film.
> 
> Trump’s lawyers contend the film’s premiere last month on NBC’s
> Peacock streaming service — a week before the trial was
> originally scheduled to start — stoked negative publicity about
> Trump, muddying his ability to get a fair trial.
> 
> In the filings made public Wednesday, Trump’s attorneys accuse
> Daniels of “plainly seeking to promote her brand and make money
> based on her status as a witness.”
> 
> The subpoena also demands communications between Daniels and
> other likely witnesses in the trial, including Cohen and Karen
> McDougal, a former Playboy model who alleges she had an affair
> with Trump. It also requests any communications between Daniels
> and Carroll.
> 
> Earlier this month, Merchan blocked an attempt by Trump to
> subpoena NBC Universal for information related to the
> documentary. He wrote that subpoena and the demands therein “are
> the very definition of a fishing expedition.”
> 
> https://apnews.com/article/stormy-daniels-donald-trump-
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Stormy Daniels lied.