'That surprised me': Stormy Daniels lawyer dishes about Trump attorney's 'failed' subpoena
Donald Trump's defense team apparently sent Stormy Daniels a subpoena demanding documents — but then apparently didn't do anything to actually secure them.
Porn star Stormy Daniels' attorney Clark Brewster made the odd admission on CNN's "The Source" when Kaitlan Collins asked him about the opportunity the defense had to call his client as a defense witness.
"Actually, the lead lawyer sent an emailed subpoena to me requesting documents," Brewster said. "It had no legal effect."
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Brewster noted that the emailed subpoena was all there was in terms of correspondence, and that the attorney, who he didn't name, "never reached out or followed up at all."
Daniels was called to testify earlier this month in the criminal hush money case against Donald Trump.
She had been paid $130,000 in multiple payments by Trump's former fixer and attorney Michael Cohen in 2016 as an effort that prosecutors allege was to prevent her from going public about an alleged affair a decade earlier.
The former president stands accused of masking those payments as legal fees to Cohen in order to insulate his political capital and influence the outcome of the election.
Trump has denied the affair and pleaded not guilty. A New York jury is currently deliberating after six weeks of trial.
Prosecutors allege Trump paid Daniels to keep quiet about the claims as he ran for president in 2016.
Her testimony discussed in detail the unprotected sex she claims they engaged in.
"And you want him to go to jail?” Trump's lawyer asked her.
“I want him to be held accountable,” Daniels said.
Brewster explained that the subpoena he received from Trump's defense amounted to nothing and he said it was "litigated" to "quash" it.
"It was a futile, failed effort that kind of surprised me that that caliber counsel that would do that, that's interesting," he said.