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Audio Up. Good morning and happy Friday ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Defiant Podcast thank you for joining me I'm your

host Mejeed Padellan a a Brooklyn dad Defiant it was day 14 of the Trump-Hush Money Trial, aka the election interference trial, and the second day of testimony for Porn Star-Turned Star Witness Stormy Daniels whose testimony could ultimately decide the fate of

Donald Trump and with it the 2024 presidential election.

Daniel's testimony left nothing to the imagination, but it was the courtroom sketch of the

adult film star that really lit up the internet with the consensus being that the sketch artist did Stormy Dirty as one commentator lamented.

Perhaps the court was trying to even the score after weeks of Trump sketches that made

him look less orange Jesus and more like the pictures of

toddler draws at the therapist of their creepy uncle touchy. Trump who watched the

testimony through a court monitor, rather than look at Daniels directly, took the truth social after his day in court, declaring the whole affair should be a mistrial. Looking at the pictures one could get the impression

that Magda from something about Mary was on trial or someone from that show

snapped about women who shoot their husbands.

In my mind, the sketch artist was throwing shade at Stormy,

channeling the defense team's portrayal of Stormy as gold digging trailer trash.

The problem with that approach is that Stormy is a sympathetic figure for our time,

and a badass class warrior who refuses to hide or be silenced. She is the polar opposite of

Donald Trump in that she's entirely self-made. Even her name is an invention.

The Japanese have a saying, quote, a man is whatever room he is in, unquote. And yesterday, the world got a glimpse of the real stormy Daniels and she was dishing out some serious payback.

Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote that, quote, for nearly a decade,

Trump has been the nation's main chaos agent he causes the mayhem and the

rest of us have to react adjust adapt and try to stay calm but for one, somebody else was causing the chaos and Trump and his lawyers

were the ones who had to react and adapt. They had to ride out Stormy's Storm.

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