CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday struggled to politely describe Stormy Daniels' latest testimony in former President Donald Trump's hush-money trial.
During a contentious exchange on the stand, Daniels was asked about old social media posts she made in which she belittled and ridiculed Trump.
One particularly crude exchange came when Daniels responded to someone who called her a "human toilet," to which she responded that she would nonetheless be responsible for flushing down Trump, whom she described as an "orange t--d."
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This left Cooper somewhat stunned.
"I didn't think I'd ever say this sentence, but they're actually arguing over who the orange turd is," Cooper informed viewers. "She has said, 'Oh, I absolutely meant Mr. Trump,' so Stormy Daniels has no clarified that is who she was in fact talking about... flushing down the toilet."
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Later in the segment, Cooper questioned whether grilling Daniels about her mean tweets regarding the former president was really the wisest political chess move.
"It's gonna be interesting to hear... how ultimately, if jurors ever speak, how effective they think this kind of level of cross-examination of Stormy Daniels has been," said Cooper. "There's obviously a danger of spending a lot of time in the weeds on tweets."
Cooper then cited reporting that "some of what the defense is doing is essentially client maintenance, is essentially what Donald Trump wants them to do, not necessarily what they may have wanted to do."
A recent report from the New York Times indicated that Trump has been unhappy with his lawyers for not being more "aggressive" in going after witnesses in the Manhattan trial, and Trump has reportedly even suggested that his attorneys lob attacks on the jury pool that he believes is biased against him.
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