CNN’s Paula Reid, among others, commented on Daniel’s admitting to hating Trump and wanting him in prison while vowing to defy court orders to pay him the money she owes him.

By Jack Montgomery | The National Pulse

Consensus among analysts, including those working at networks hostile to Donald Trump and avowed ‘Never Trumpers,’ is that Stormy Daniels’s testimony in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s election interference case on Tuesday was “disastrous” for prosecutors.

CNN Chief Legal Analyst Paula Reid, who often peddles false and negative narratives against Trump, conceded the former president’s lawyers had executed a “devastating, eviscerating” cross-examination of Daniels.

“They’ve gotten Stormy Daniels to concede she hates Trump. That she said that she would dance if he went to jail. They have pointed to the fact that she has said she will never pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars that she owes him,” Reid said.

Daniels’s bringing a flimsy defamation case against Trump saw her ordered to pay substantial costs to the former president.

Her lawyer at the time, Michael Avenatti, now describes her as “the most opportunistic person I’ve ever met” and accuses her of falsifying records and committing fraud to avoid the debt.

“They’ve effectively undercut her credibility by getting her to talk about conversations she had, that impeaching her with her own book,” Reid added.

“I mean, this has been devastating for Stormy Daniels’ credibility.”

‘A BIG DAMN DEAL.’

Similarly, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said Daniels’s “responses were disastrous.”

“I mean, ‘Do you hate Donald Trump?’ ‘Yes.’ … That’s a big deal. When the witness hates the person whose liberty is at stake, that’s a big damn deal!” Honig exclaimed.

“And she’s putting out tweets, fantasizing about him being in jail. That really undermines the credibility,” the analyst added.

“The fact that she owes him $500,000 by order of a court, owes Donald Trump a half million dollars, and said, ‘I will never pay him. I will defy a court order,’ the defense is gonna say, ‘She’s willing to defy a court order. She’s not willing to respect an order from a judge. Why is she gonna respect this oath she took?’” she added.

‘SALACIOUS DETAILS.’

Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump staffer who has since parlayed her betrayal of the former president into a job on The View, also believes Daniels’s testimony hurt the prosecution.

“I want to say this; I’m not an attorney, [but] I know Republican voters and I know the Republican public. I’m a bit stunned that the prosecution leaned so heavily into the salacious details about the sexual encounter,” she said, referring to the fact prosecutors repeatedly went into graphic details of the supposed affair the judge had told them to avoid.

“I think to really lean into that side of it… I don’t know that that’s going to play well with a jury,” she said.

Daniels’s graphic stories about her alleged liaison with Trump proved so prejudicial that defense lawyers moved, albeit unsuccessfully, for a mistrial, with Judge Juan Merchan — a Joe Biden donor — admitting some of her testimony crossed the line.

The trial resumes on Thursday with further cross-examination of Daniels. ##