On Thursday, adult film star Stormy Daniels will once again take the stand in Donald Trump's 34-felony-count Manhattan hush money trial where one political observer expects her to once again get under the former president's skin.
In her column for the Guardian, Emma Brockes suggested Daniels, who has already used her testimony to exact a certain degree of revenge on the former president by spilling details about their sex tryst, has "Trump's number" when it comes to mocking him before a public eager for dirt.
As Brockes observed, the adult film star is the type of "woman court systems tend to revile" but she has risen above that.
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As such, she has become "Trump’s very worst nightmare."
In her Guardian column, Brockes asserted, "If we are looking beyond verdicts to the public image, however, Daniels is in some ways by far the more menacing foe for Trump. You couldn’t make up the details of her testimony this week, which sent court reporters scrambling to find sober ways to present her account of spanking Trump with a rolled up magazine and insisting on having sex with her without a condom."
She then added, "This is a woman willing to meet Trump at his preferred site of conflict – public humiliation – and on the evidence so far, he isn’t weathering it well."
Pointing out that it has been apparent from the start the Daniels "knows how to hit him where it hurts," she made the point that writer E. Jean Carroll exacted financial damage on Trump to the tune of $83.3 million in another Manhattan courtroom, and that Daniels is doing psychic damage to the ex-president now.
"Trump and his team know what Daniels is doing – which is flatly, salaciously and in incredible detail – making an absolute mockery of him in front of the world," she wrote. "It is, they have argued, unfair. It is below the belt. It is unmistakably, compellingly, and as it may turn out, successfully, an approach borrowed from Trump’s own playbook."
You can read more of her commentary here.