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NEW YORK: Stormy Daniels finished her marathon testimony at Donald Trump's hush money trial on Thursday with attorneys for the former prez seeking to paint her as a greedy liar who profited from her allegations.
The porn star, who claims to have had sex with the married Trump in 2006, denied that she threatened the tycoon if he did not buy her silence.
"I wanted the truth to come out... to get my story protected with a paper trail," the 45-year-old said during aggressive cross-examination by Trump's attorney Susan Necheles. Trump, 77, is accused of falsifying business records for a $130,000 payment to Daniels for her silence ahead of the 2016 election about the alleged encounter.
On Thursday, Trump's lawyers sought to suggest that Daniels was out for money, cashing in on her story in a book for which the defence claimed she received $800,000. They accused her of appearing at strip club events promoted with a picture of Trump and the tagline "Making America Horny Again".
"You made all this up, right?" Necheles asked Daniels at one point. "No," Daniels replied. The lawyer also suggested that Daniels, a porn actor, had experience with "phony stories about sex".
