Kudos to Stormy Daniels for standing her ground and refusing to be pushed around and insulted by Trump and his very rude lawyers.
Stormy Daniels or Stephany Clifford was going to be rubbished as a hooker and a prostitute who was out to shake down their filthy-rich but buffoonish client as opined by Rachel Maddow in one of her brilliant analysis of the trial so far.
But guess who is going to laugh last and laugh best?
It is “toilet” Stormy Daniel of Baton Rouge who never went to Harvard, Yale or Columbia Law who had acquitted herself creditably by proving she is a far smarter witness than the Trump Defense had initially thought of her.
“Allahu Aqbar” any Muslim lawyer watching that cross examination by the Trump Defense would have shouted.
Why? Because God as predicted in the Bible had once again used the foolish things of the world to confound the wise.
The Trump Defense had assumed they were far smarter and wiser than the hooker who had proved to the Jurors and the Judge and all of the audience watching the proceedings in Court that she was no match for the Trump team all things considered. She stood tall and supremely confident of herself under cross examination.
If the Prosecution had the upper hand, inspite of having the more difficult job to prove their case beyond any reasonable doubt, you can take it from me that Stormy Daniels and the way she has performed in Court, was a huge part of the Prosecution’s success if not all of it.
A huge part of their Prosecution’s accolades belong to all of Prosecution Team led by Harvard- trained District Attorney Alvin Bragg and the impeccable restraint and very disciplined and firm control of the Court and the whole trial by Judge Juan Merchan himself who deserves a Medal of Freedom for presiding over the trial of the Century that is finally going to nail the coffin of the Mob Boss and the worst candidate ever to be elected President by fluke.
The former President and rabble rouser Trump has remained the greatest threat to Democracy worse than Adolf Hitler, If you can believe it.
I give kudos to Stormy Daniels for standing up for her profession as an Adult Film Star and proving to all and sundry that no profession or occupation is inferior to another.
We are all to blame, if we let anyone rubbish our profession or occupation and our self esteem.
If you are a cloakroom attendant or a dog catcher, just try and be the best in what you do for a living and don’t let anyone mess with your mind or put you down like Donald Trump was ordering his Defense Counsels to do to Prosecution’s witnesses and to Judge Merchan and Alvin Bragg and to all of the 18 Jurors before they deliver their verdict.
Most observers think that Micheal Cohen who testifies tomorrow is a lawyer who served as Trump’s fixer for 10 years and he is very Trumpian in many ways but very good in what he does.
If Cohen, like Stormy Daniels performs very well as the last major witnesses with documents and corroborative evidence to prove their evidences, where for goodness sake does that leave Donald Trump and his Defense whose only goal is to raise some doubt in at least one juror to get a Hung Jury.
Which of his lawyers in all honesty can swear under oath that Donald Trump is not a reckless and shameless womanizer and pathological liar? I cannot think of one.
What the Trump Defense is hoping for in this trial is going to be pretty hard to do when the Prosecution has gone far beyond the call of duty to prove their points with facts and figures and with many corroborative documentation that not even Donald Trump and his lawyers can dispute as fake or forged.
But I agree that both Trump and Cohen are two sides of the same coin or Siamese twins.
They are both liars but Trump is a more pathological liar than Cohen who had lied to protect his boss for a crime they have both committed.
Cohen went to jail for the same crime but the boss who cheated to become President wanted to go scot-free.
If Cohen can just tell the truth in presenting all of the documents to prove Trump’s guilt without showing too much bias or vendetta or hatred for Trump, the mere fact that he had lied to protect Trump does not mean that all of the documents he is able to provide and which have been corroborated and bolstered by many other witnesses like David Parker, Hope Hicks and Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal cannot be accepted as the truth by the jurors to unanimously convict Donald Trump.
That is the crux of the matter and that is why I believe that Trump is going to get the hammer this time around and be convicted and be criminally-held accountable for once in his life time.
Every Diplomatic Negotiation is a thousand days of failures and only one day of success said Henry Kissinger.
So is every trial for both the Prosecution and the Defense.
Based on that parameter alone , both the Prosecution and Defense have recorded some failures and some successes but it all depends on how the Jurors understand or interpret that development to come to a verdict on the trial.
The whole world would be watching how Mike Cohen performs in the Witness Box in the next few days and so will I.
I rest my case.
Prince Dr Wumi Akintide writes from Oyemekun Terrace New York City