At some deep level, the former adult film star clearly has his number and knows how to hit him where it hurtsin a Manhattan courtroom this week sent one back to the image of Trump’s last female antagonist, E Jean Carroll, the advice columnist who famously sued Trump for sexually assaulting her, standing victorious. Daniels, unlike Carroll, is not the plaintiff in this case.
This impression is extrajudicial. Daniels, who has already been rebuked by the judge for straying off topic, may prove too wayward a witness to achieve what Carroll did: the civil case equivalent of a guilty verdict against a man almost supernaturally able to avoid them. If we are looking beyond verdicts to the public image, however, Daniels is in some ways by far the more menacing foe for Trump.
Last year, during the Carroll hearing, the former president defaulted to the standard tittering, smirking, mocking performance he reserves for critical women – be they accusing him of rape or running against him for president. Accounts from the courtroom this week suggest this persona was no match for Daniels. The Associated Pressin the act of “angry, profane muttering”, which won Trump his own rebuke from the judge.
As with so many episodes involving Trump, this is a spectacular reversal of cultural norms. Women like Daniels tend not to prosper in court, where unruliness that might be considered rakish in a man is more likely to be read in women as a byword for trash. None of that quite applies here. One has always understood about Daniels that, at some deep level, she has Trump’s number and knows how to hit him where it hurts.
This manoeuvre, as Trump’s lawyers pointed out while asking for a mistrial , has nothing to do with the facts of the case, which hinges on whether or not Trump paid Daniels $130,000 in hush money in the run up to the 2016 election, and then covered it up by falsifying business records. Trump and his team know what Daniels is doingmaking an absolute mockery of him in front of the world. It is, they have argued, unfair. It is below the belt.
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