Former federal prosecutor Paul Butler said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that former President Donald Trump’s attorney made a huge mistake by going after adult film star Stormy Daniels during her cross-examination at the New York business record trial.
Discussing defense counsel Susan Necheles’ questions today in court, host Joy Reid said, “This kind of ego-stroking Trump and, you know, attacking Stormy Daniels because Trump can’t do it — that doesn’t seem to me to be a defense.”
Butler said, “It’s a performance for the client. So it is the job of a defense attorney to attack the credibility of a witness for the prosecution. And in fact, there was baggage that Stormy Daniels has. She lost a defamation case with Trump, and she said that
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