EXCERPT:
HONIG: “My impression was she was plausible on her explanation of what happened in that hotel room. It‘s hard for me to believe that a juror heard that and thought this is entirely made up. There may well be some embellishments, which Arthur I think pointed out effectively in the last hour, but I think it‘s quite clear they had sex in 2006 in that hotel room. But the cross-exam, boy, her responses were disastrous. I mean, do you hate Donald Trump? Yes, of course she does. That‘s a big deal. When the witness hates the person who‘s liberty is at stake, that‘s a big damn deal. And she‘s putting out tweets, fantasizing about him being in jail. That really undermines the credibility. The fact that she owes him $500,000, she, 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 going to say, 'She‘s willing to defy a court order. She‘s not willing to respect an order of a judge. Why is she going to respect this oath she took?' So I thought it went quite poorly on cross-exam. At the end of direct, I thought, 'Okay, they got what they needed,' but I think the cross is make real inroads.'"