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Necheles finally asks the one question she should have asked on this cross: whether Stormy had knowledge about what Trump did in connection with the hush-money transaction. Literally this should have been a five-minute cross, focused on that single proposition.

Prosecutors have relied on a description of Trump employees have used about him for years -- micromanager on media and money -- to suggest he had to have known about the arrangement to repay Cohen @Jonesieman @jonathanvswan me www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/politics/trump-trial-micromanager.html

At one point during cross-examination, Stormy Daniels accuses Trump lawyer Susan Necheles of "trying to trick me into saying something that's not entirely true."

Trump lawyer Susan Necheles: "Even though you had agreed that you would not discuss this supposed story and you had received a lot of money for that agreement, you then decided that you wanted to publicly say that you had sex with Donald Trump." Daniels: "Nobody would ever want…