In her testimony and especially in her cross-examination, writer/director/actor Stormy Daniels became the hero that America needs right now. She was on the stand for the prosecution of Donald Trump, a rapist who is also a former president, for falsifying business records to hide the hush money he paid to Daniels for a sexual encounter in 2006. Over the course of two days, first under questioning from Manhattan prosecutor Susan Hoffinger and then under dickish cross-examination from Trump attorney Susan Necheles, Daniels put a human face on what could be a somewhat dry financial crimes case and, in a much larger sense, responded to the complete bullshit of the Trump side with cutting common sense and a two feet squarely in reality.
Like in this exchange with Necheles, where Necheles was trying to say that everything Daniels was doing was just for money:
Q: That motivates you a lot in life, making more money; right?
A: Well, it is the United [States] — that’s what we do here. (Shrugs)
